Alan Cox wrote:
>
> Yes but tdskb:foo.mac[1013,1013,frob];4 is *not* elegant.
I think describing VMS pathname syntax as "not elegant" is kind of like
describing George W. Bush as "not a genius."
> POSIX is very
> clear about what is acceptable as magic in a pathname, and the unix spec
> even more so. The NetApp approach recognizes two important things
>
> 1. Old version access is the oddity not the norm
> 2. Standards behaviour is important
>
3. An atomic snapshot is more useful than a bunch of disconnected
per-file version. Kind of like CVS vs SVN.
-hpa
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