From: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
To: Joshua Hudson <joshudson@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 02/27] allow hard links to directories, opt-in for any filesystem
Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 22:52:19 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <44043973.4070202@yahoo.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <bda6d13a0602272204l494e8fe7q67c2509d4e7aa0f7@mail.gmail.com>
Joshua Hudson wrote:
> Patch seems to work, might want more testing.
> It probably should not be applied without a discussion, especially
> as no filesystem in kernel tree wants this. I am working on a fs that does.
>
This is backwards I think. This is not disallowed because there are
no filesystems that want it. Linux doesn't want it so it is disallowed
by the vfs.
You have to put forward a case for why we want it, rather than show us
your filesystem that "wants" it. Right?
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-02-28 11:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-02-28 6:04 [PATCH 02/27] allow hard links to directories, opt-in for any filesystem Joshua Hudson
2006-02-28 11:52 ` Nick Piggin [this message]
2006-02-28 16:57 ` Horst von Brand
2006-03-01 2:12 ` Nick Piggin
2006-03-02 21:10 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-02-28 20:09 ` Sam Vilain
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