Ticket #370 (closed task: wontfix)

Opened 15 years ago

Last modified 11 years ago

Update pyhesiodfs snapshot to add /mit/.locker support

Reported by: geofft Owned by: broder
Priority: low Milestone:
Component: -- Keywords:
Cc: Fixed in version:
Upstream bug:

Description

   sipb / lockers / broder  15:16  (Evan Broder)
       geofft: pyhesiodfs already can do /mit/.locker
-> sipb / lockers / broder  15:16  (Evan Broder)
       The code is in git/svn/whatever. I just haven't updated Debathena's
       snapshot of the code
   sipb / lockers / broder  15:16  (Evan Broder)
       File a ticket or something

Change History

comment:1 Changed 14 years ago by broder

It was pointed out a while back that some applications (e.g. git) will look all the way up the directory tree to find magic dotfiles or dot-directories, so having, e.g. /mit/.git, automatically exist could be a potentially weird behavior.

Given that, I'm not sure we actually want to fix this.

comment:2 Changed 14 years ago by broder

  • Status changed from new to closed
  • Resolution set to wontfix

Even if /mit/.git is the only actual risky behavior we know about here, that's enough to convince me that the side-effects from /mit/.locker support are way more serious than the benefits. Plus you can always ln -nsf anyway.

comment:3 Changed 11 years ago by andersk

Hey, what about /.mit/locker instead?

comment:4 follow-up: ↓ 5 Changed 11 years ago by achernya

/.mit seems slightly annoying because it involves another whole mountpoint. Could we perhaps do something weirder in /mit/, perhaps /mit/.#? I'm not aware of any programs that look of .#foo files.

comment:5 in reply to: ↑ 4 Changed 11 years ago by jweiss

Replying to achernya:

/.mit seems slightly annoying because it involves another whole mountpoint. Could we perhaps do something weirder in /mit/, perhaps /mit/.#? I'm not aware of any programs that look of .#foo files.

That's exactly the convention used by Athena delete/expunge. I don't think there's a technical conflict, here, since the expunger only runs in AFS, but it still seems like it has the potential for confusion

comment:6 Changed 11 years ago by andersk

/.mit/locker parallels /afs/.athena.mit.edu/path in a way that makes sense, while .#locker looks like editor backup sputum. What's wrong with another whole mountpoint?

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