> On our build 147 server (pool version 22) I've noticed that some directories 
> called ".$EXTEND" (no quotes) are appearing underneath some shared NFS 
> filesystems, containing an empty file called "$QUOTA". We aren't using quotas.
> 
> What are these ? Googling for the names doesn't really work too well :-(
> 
> I don't think they're doing any harm, but I'm curious. Someone's bound to
> notice and ask me as well :-) 

Well, googling for '.$EXTEND' and '$QUOTA' does give some results,
especially when combined with 'NTFS'. :-)

Check out the table on "Metafiles" here:

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTFS


Regards -- Volker
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