[geeks] Versioning FIlesystem

[vance at neurotica.com]

On Fri, 23 May 2003, Mike Meredith wrote:

> > Yes, but I'd do it as part of the way the system maps namespaces,
> > rather than in the driver for a specific file system.  The problem
> > becomes that you'd have a second "special" character in addition to
> > '/'.  The ':' character makes the most sense.
>
> If you're going to use an extra character for versions it's probably
> worth using the VMS character which I think is ';'. However there's
> quite a few problems with introducing another special character, so why
> not use '/' again ?

That would get very confusing, very quickly.

Peace...  Sridhar