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From: "Jörn Engel" <joern@logfs.org>
To: Al Boldi <a1426z@gawab.com>
Cc: "Jörn Engel" <joern@logfs.org>,
	"Satyam Sharma" <satyam.sharma@gmail.com>,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Hardlink Pitfalls (was: Patches for REALLY TINY 386 kernels)
Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2007 23:10:49 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070716211049.GA3537@lazybastard.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200707162023.04646.a1426z@gawab.com>

On Mon, 16 July 2007 20:23:04 +0300, Al Boldi wrote:
> Jörn Engel wrote:
> 
> > The only place that can ensure to always break the
> > link is the kernel.  Which is why I wrote the cowlink patches some years
> > back.
> 
> Can you post a patch against 2.6.22?

I can and probably will.

> > The still need a lot of love to be merge-ready.  But I do use them on a
> > daily basis.
> 
> Well, if the patch is lean and optional and runtime configurable, then they 
> should definitely be considered for inclusion.

Lean is not the word I would choose.  It works.  For me.  That is about
as much praise as it deserves.

Jörn

-- 
Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, but
not tried it.
-- Donald Knuth
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  reply	other threads:[~2007-07-16 21:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-07-16 14:22 Hardlink Pitfalls (was: Patches for REALLY TINY 386 kernels) Al Boldi
2007-07-16 16:44 ` Satyam Sharma
2007-07-16 16:53   ` Jörn Engel
2007-07-16 17:23     ` Al Boldi
2007-07-16 21:10       ` Jörn Engel [this message]
2007-07-17 11:43 ` Geert Uytterhoeven

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