>The directory is quite visible with a standard 'ls -a'. Instead, >they simply mark it as a separate volume/filesystem: i.e. the fsid >differs when you call stat(). The whole thing ends up acting rather like >our bind mounts.
Hmm. So it breaks user space quite a bit. By break, I mean uses that work with more conventional filesystems stop working if you switch to NetAp. Most programs that operate on directory trees willingly cross filesystems, right? Even ones that give you an option, such as GNU cp, don't by default. But if the implementation is, as described, wildly successful, that means users are willing to tolerate this level of breakage, so it could be used for versioning too. But I think I'd rather see a truly hidden directory for this (visible only when looked up explicitly). -- Bryan Henderson IBM Almaden Research Center San Jose CA Filesystems - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
