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From: Hubert Chan <hubert@uhoreg.ca>
To: reiserfs-list@namesys.com
Subject: Re: carrying links too far? (was Re: A bold idea (Re: Carrying Attributes too Far))
Date: Sun, 07 Dec 2003 13:25:56 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87iskstrgr.fsf@uhoreg.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 1070803113.3fd328a961d00@webmail.st-andrews.ac.uk

>>>>> "Leo" == lrc1  <lrc1@st-andrews.ac.uk> writes:

[...]

Leo> There are several different ways you can handle filesystems which
Leo> are frequently mounted and remounted.

I don't see any way that would work reasonably well.  Can you give an
example of one way?

Leo> Old single-tree filesystems can probably be adapted or fooled into
Leo> working reasonably well with external hard links too.

I'm not sure what you mean by this.  I think any filesystem that needs
to work with external hardlinks, in either direction, needs to be
patched -- either to be able to store the location of an external
hardlink, or to be able to update a refcount without having a new local
reference.

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-12-07 18:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 58+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-10-04  5:58 Carrying Attributes too Far lrc1
2003-10-04 18:17 ` Alexander G. M. Smith
2003-10-04 20:10 ` Hubert Chan
2003-12-03 19:18 ` Hans Reiser
2003-12-05  0:30   ` lrc1
2003-12-05  3:58     ` A bold idea (Re: Carrying Attributes too Far) David Masover
2003-12-05  9:44       ` Heinz-Josef Claes
2003-12-05 14:00         ` David Masover
2003-12-05 16:37           ` Hubert Chan
2003-12-06  1:38             ` David Masover
2003-12-06  4:01               ` Hubert Chan
2003-12-06 17:40                 ` David Masover
2003-12-06 22:41             ` lrc1
2003-12-07  1:18               ` carrying links too far? (was Re: A bold idea (Re: Carrying Attributes too Far)) David Masover
2003-12-07  2:26                 ` Hubert Chan
2003-12-07  9:08                   ` The danger of bad external links lrc1
2003-12-07 18:15                     ` Hubert Chan
2003-12-07 13:18                 ` carrying links too far? (was Re: A bold idea (Re: Carrying Attributes too Far)) lrc1
2003-12-07 16:17                   ` David Masover
2003-12-07 18:25                   ` Hubert Chan [this message]
2003-12-07  2:11               ` A bold idea (Re: Carrying Attributes too Far) Hubert Chan
2003-12-08 20:54         ` Boyd Waters
2003-12-09  8:03           ` Heinz-Josef Claes
2003-12-10  2:12             ` more about links (was Re: A bold idea (Re: Carrying Attributes too Far)) David Masover
2003-12-11 11:35               ` Heinz-Josef Claes
2003-12-05 13:16       ` More on Hard Links (was " Alexander G. M. Smith
2003-12-05 14:07         ` David Masover
2003-12-05 14:17           ` Nikita Danilov
2003-12-05 15:58             ` Hans Reiser
2003-12-05 16:18               ` Nikita Danilov
2003-12-06  1:50                 ` Garbage collection for files (was Re: More on Hard Links (was A bold idea (Re: Carrying Attributes too Far))) David Masover
2003-12-07  3:27                   ` Hans Reiser
2003-12-06 10:06                 ` More on Hard Links (was A bold idea (Re: Carrying Attributes too Far)) Stewart Smith
2003-12-05 22:38             ` Alexander G. M. Smith
2003-12-06  1:54               ` David Masover
2003-12-06 15:31                 ` Alexander G. M. Smith
2003-12-07  1:08                   ` David Masover
2003-12-07  2:42                     ` Alexander G. M. Smith
2003-12-09  5:21                       ` More on Hard Links Narcoleptic Electron
2003-12-09 18:48                         ` Hubert Chan
2003-12-09 19:52                           ` Narcoleptic Electron
2003-12-09 21:31                             ` Hubert Chan
2003-12-09 23:47                               ` Narcoleptic Electron
2003-12-10  0:13                                 ` Narcoleptic Electron
2003-12-10  3:05                                   ` Hubert Chan
2004-01-22 21:15                                     ` Narcoleptic Electron
2003-12-10  2:53                                 ` Hubert Chan
2003-12-10  3:22                                 ` Religion and Hard Links (was Re: More on Hard Links) David Masover
2003-12-10 20:49                                 ` More on Hard Links Matt Stegman
2003-12-16  1:27                                 ` Hubert Chan
2003-12-10  2:44                           ` David Masover
2003-12-05  5:27     ` Carrying Attributes too Far Hubert Chan
2003-12-05 12:38     ` Hans Reiser
2003-12-06 23:33       ` lrc1
2003-12-07  2:48         ` Hubert Chan
2003-12-07 17:08         ` Hans Reiser
     [not found]     ` <3FD0023D.5030500@ninja.dynup.net>
2003-12-07  6:37       ` Saved Re: A bold idea (Re: Carrying Attributes too Far) lrc1
2003-12-07  6:39         ` lrc1

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