From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tom Vier Subject: Re: filenames that can be safely stolen (was Re: starting with ".." could break stuff) Date: Sun, 4 Apr 2004 20:06:45 -0400 Message-ID: <20040405000645.GB9905@zero> References: <200404010546.i315kEvY019805@sirius.cs.pdx.edu> <20040402035617.GC2158@zero> <8765ciqr6v.fsf@uhoreg.ca> <20040402220250.GB4668@rahul.net> <406EFCE2.8000108@namesys.com> Reply-To: Tom Vier Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Errors-To: flx@namesys.com Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <406EFCE2.8000108@namesys.com> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: reiserfs-list@namesys.com On Sat, Apr 03, 2004 at 10:05:22AM -0800, Hans Reiser wrote: > i care more about people 20 years from now complaining that reiserfs is > ugly in its aesthetics than about unreal problems. > > punctuation in method names is uglier than "metas" maybe if you try to pronounce it, but imho, making "metas" a reserved name is not a good idea and is very ugly. taking a somewhat common word (though "meta" is probably more common than "metas") and reserving seems like a huge wart to me. if you have to reserve an inband name, it should be one that, while containing mostly a descriptive english word, doesn't trample regular filenames (eg, more than one dot). and finally, i hate the 's'. 8) for one thing, it might only contain only one file. -- Tom Vier DSA Key ID 0x15741ECE