From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Hans Reiser Subject: Re: FS: hardlinks on directories Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2003 19:48:23 +0400 Message-ID: <3F4A2FC7.1060602@namesys.com> References: <20030804141548.5060b9db.skraw@ithnet.com> <03080409334500.03650@tabby> <20030804170506.11426617.skraw@ithnet.com> <03080416092800.04444@tabby> <20030805003210.2c7f75f6.skraw@ithnet.com> <3F2FA862.2070401@aitel.hist.no> <20030805150351.5b81adfe.skraw@ithnet.com> <20030805220831.GA893@hh.idb.hist.no> <3F48F77D.7040907@namesys.com> <16201.51310.181117.716100@laputa.namesys.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Errors-To: flx@namesys.com In-Reply-To: <16201.51310.181117.716100@laputa.namesys.com> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: Nikita Danilov Cc: Helge Hafting , Stephan von Krawczynski , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Reiserfs List Nikita Danilov wrote: >Hans Reiser writes: > > > >[...] > > > So, he needs links that count as references, links that don't count as > > references but disappear if the object disappears (without dangling like > > symlinks), and unlinkall(), which removes an object and all of its > > links. He needs for the first reference to a directory to be removable > > only by removing all links to the object, or designating another link to > > be the "first" reference. > > > > Sounds clean to me. > >Will surely continue to be this way until you start implementing. :) > > > This is not to say that I am funded to write > > it.;-) I'd look at a patch though.....;-) > > > > I need to write up a taxonomy of links..... after reiser4 ships..... > >http://www.namesys.com/v4/links-taxonomy.html > > > > > -- > > Hans > > > >Nikita. > > > > > > > I meant one that is intelligible to the reader and comes with a detailed explanation.;-) Also, I am sure we need another round of seminars on it. -- Hans