Re: [ANNOUNCE] GIT 0.99.9g

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Nov 11, 2005, 14:19 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0511111516170.7575@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <43737EC7.6090109@zytor.com>

Hi,

On Thu, 10 Nov 2005, H. Peter Anvin wrote:

> May I *STRONGLY* urge you to name that something different. "lost+found" 
> is a name with special properties in Unix; for example, many backup 
> solutions will ignore a directory with that name.

Two reasons against renaming:

- we call it fsck-objects for a reason. We are working on a file system, 
  which just so happens to be implemented in user space, not kernel space.
  If lost+found has to find a new name, so does fsck-objects.

- lost+found has a special meaning, granted. So, a backup would not be 
  made of it. So what? I *don't* want it backup'ed. I want to repair what
  was wrong with it. When I repaired it, the result is stored somewhere
  else. To backup lost+found would make as much sense as to backup /tmp.

Ciao, Dscho