From: Andrew Walrond <andrew@walrond.org>
To: Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Symlink indirection
Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 16:48:45 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3DFA0F6D.1010904@walrond.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 200212131616.gBDGGH302861@devserv.devel.redhat.com
Pete,
Sorry for being dense, but what do you mean by 'bindings' ? Hard links?
Andrew
> Frankly, all cases when I had seen the nested symlink farms of that
> depth would be better served by use of bindings - these are not subject
> to any limits on nesting and avoid a lot of PITA inherent to symlink
> farms. To put it another way, nested symlink farms grow from attempts
> to work around the lack of bindings. It's not that you need to replace
> all symlinks with bindings, of course - the crown of the tree is usually
> OK, it's the trunk that acts as source of pain.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-12-13 16:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-12-13 15:06 Symlink indirection Andrew Walrond
2002-12-13 15:11 ` Marc-Christian Petersen
2002-12-13 15:20 ` Andrew Walrond
2002-12-13 17:22 ` Alan Cox
2002-12-13 15:30 ` Richard B. Johnson
2002-12-13 16:17 ` James Antill
2002-12-13 16:34 ` Andrew Walrond
2002-12-13 17:24 ` James Antill
2002-12-13 16:24 ` Andrew Walrond
2002-12-13 16:26 ` Jesse Pollard
2002-12-13 15:23 ` Richard B. Johnson
2002-12-13 16:41 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2002-12-13 16:51 ` Jeff Bailey
2002-12-13 17:15 ` Amos Waterland
2002-12-13 17:51 ` Richard B. Johnson
[not found] ` <mailman.1039792562.8768.linux-kernel2news@redhat.com>
2002-12-13 16:16 ` Pete Zaitcev
2002-12-13 16:48 ` Andrew Walrond [this message]
2002-12-13 16:55 ` Pete Zaitcev
2002-12-13 17:04 ` Andrew Walrond
2002-12-14 5:57 ` Joseph Fannin
2002-12-14 12:47 ` Andrew Walrond
2002-12-14 13:55 ` John Bradford
2002-12-14 14:00 ` Andrew Walrond
2002-12-14 16:13 ` John Bradford
2002-12-14 19:50 ` Stephen Wille Padnos
2002-12-15 0:41 ` Andrew Walrond
2002-12-23 5:58 ` Thomas Zimmerman
2002-12-13 17:32 ` James Antill
[not found] <fa.eib7vkv.1tju08k@ifi.uio.no>
[not found] ` <fa.cnblikv.qjmuqd@ifi.uio.no>
2002-12-15 7:24 ` junkio
2002-12-15 12:17 ` Andrew Walrond
2002-12-15 12:58 ` John Bradford
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