[geeks] Versioning FIlesystem

[Mike Meredith]

On Friday 23 May 2003 02:54, Jonathan C. Patschke 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 
?