Re: Disk partition names

Harlan writes:

> I understand it's a sidai thing ...

Apologies if I overemphasize the ARK/sidai thing... I **really**
don't want people to get the impression that using Arusha
stuff means "doing dumb things like Will does".

> I'm just wondering about the pros/cons of using "information hiding"
> names for the user-hostile disk names.
> 
> For exmple, if one used ._diskN names and a disk gets
> added/deleted/reorganized, it will take Extra Effort to see what things
> should be renamed. ...
> 
> I was just wondering if we could discuss this a bit.

Sure.  If you want, just type your mumblings straight into
blessed-names.txt and check it in.

It may be that I haven't thought this stuff through.  Hey,
if I had a machine with /._disk1 and /._disk2 and I lost
/._disk1, I'd just carry on with only /._disk2 :-(  But that
may be too idiosyncratic for a bigger site.

Most useful would be a sketch of the "user stories" that are
in your head.  Even just one or two examples -- examples are
lovely -- of (a) what someone might bump into, and (b) what
you'd like to happen thereafter.

Will