Meta-discussion [LWN.net]

Meta-discussion

Posted Mar 26, 2009 18:37 UTC (Thu) by quotemstr (subscriber, #45331)
Parent article: Wheeler: Fixing Unix/Linux/POSIX Filenames

I bet there's a rather strong correlation between the side a person takes on the fsync debate and how he feels about this issue.

(For the record, I support all the proposed restrictions on filenames except for a ban on shell meta-characters.)

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Posted Mar 28, 2009 22:21 UTC (Sat) by man_ls (guest, #15091) [Link]

Hmmm, I'm not so sure. I feel strongly about ext4 losing data, but I don't have a strong opinion about this issue. Really. Not for lack of sensitivity to the problem -- I've had an administrator at work erase a whole directory of files because of a leading space (so that 'rm -rf /dir/file' became 'rm -rf /dir/ file'). But there are advantages and disadvantages, and I cannot pick a side.

Bojan has only posted once, and his message contains the words "not sure". I would say that this debate attracts a different subset of (opinionated) people.