# Re: \[ANNOUNCE\] GIT 0.99.9g

- From: Johannes Schindelin \<hidden\>
- Date: 2005-11-11 14:19:07 
- List: git
- Page: https://ratatoskr.run/git/2005/11/781150
- Thread: https://ratatoskr.run/git/2005/11/780692/t.md

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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
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