From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Boyd Waters Subject: Re: A bold idea (Re: Carrying Attributes too Far) Date: Mon, 08 Dec 2003 13:54:37 -0700 Message-ID: <3FD4E50D.6070805@nrao.edu> References: <1065247084.3f7e616c94ec9@webmail.st-andrews.ac.uk> <3FCE3716.8000509@namesys.com> <1070584227.3fcfd1a3d67f4@webmail.st-andrews.ac.uk> <3FD00272.7040607@ninja.dynup.net> <1070617453.5605.13.camel@schlappix.schnulli.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Errors-To: flx@namesys.com In-Reply-To: <1070617453.5605.13.camel@schlappix.schnulli.de> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: Heinz-Josef Claes Cc: David Masover , reiserfs-list@namesys.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Heinz-Josef Claes wrote: | I think hard linking directories is a very good idea. The should be a | count for the number of hard links and it should be handled like with | normal files. I directly have an application with would have a great | benefit of this kind of hard linked directories, but up to now they are | not available in linux :-( I use mount -o bind path/to/subdirectory path/to/mountpoint as a sort-of "hard-link" directories... But it is not the same thing as a "real" hard-link of a directory. (I am not familiar with the kernel internals, beyond a quick read of this month's Linux Journal article on dentry cache.) ~ - boyd Boyd Waters National Radio Astronomy Observatory http://www.aoc.nrao.edu/~bwaters Socorro, New Mexico -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQE/1OUN0is8k1r0QeURAitsAKCF7X2D7L8TvoLl/kexksP/K/qvVQCfWnPu aq2IyX+aPYFpFXWNxkK0xCY= =hwEx -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----