On Tue, 02 Mar 2010 16:06:20 -0500
Jeffrey Altman <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 3/2/2010 3:47 PM, Andrew Deason wrote:
> 
> > We can only prevent self-foot-shooting so much... but would it be
> > going too far to drop a file in the new root dir, that actually says
> > to not use the volume? Since everything in the dir will be orphans,
> > we shouldn't need to worry about colliding with another filename.
> 
> The collision that we need to worry about is one between the filename
> that you will create and one that existed in the directory prior to
> the directory being trashed.

...which is no different than a collision with a filename like
__ORPHANFILE__.X.Y, isn't it?

The dir will be inaccessible to anyone but s:administrators anyway. I
would hope at least the administrators pay enough attention to notice
something like this.

-- 
Andrew Deason
[email protected]

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