From: Erik Logtenberg <erik@logtenberg.eu>
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Cc: BTRFS MAILING LIST <linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: hard links across snapshots/subvolumes are actually a bad idea.
Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2010 23:47:18 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4CED95F6.3030901@logtenberg.eu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTinMrCMQhnmrG6P_Xro+dFob=-gsatPTR2oiRXqr@mail.gmail.com>
Hi David,
It's not that i disagree per se, but I'd appreciate if you would explain
this statement a little. Personally, I was hoping for cross-subvolumes
hardlinks, so I'd like to know why this hope was apparently a bad idea.
Kind regards,
Erik.
On 11/24/2010 11:07 PM, David Nicol wrote:
> I've been thinking about this for a while, from a perspective of how
> to make it work by allocating i-node numbers from a global pool, but
> yesterday I realized that offering the feature would be a bad idea
> because it violates the semantics of file systems.
>
> I will be happy to expand on that point if anyone disagrees with it.
>
> dln
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-11-24 22:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-11-24 22:07 hard links across snapshots/subvolumes are actually a bad idea David Nicol
2010-11-24 22:47 ` Erik Logtenberg [this message]
2010-11-24 23:29 ` Gordan Bobic
2010-11-24 23:57 ` cwillu
2010-11-25 0:18 ` Gordan Bobic
2010-11-25 0:31 ` cwillu
2010-11-25 8:00 ` Gordan Bobic
2010-11-25 9:36 ` David Nicol
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2010-11-25 13:48 Tomasz Chmielewski
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