From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: =?utf-8?B?SsO2cm4=?= Engel Subject: Re: Hardlink Pitfalls (was: Patches for REALLY TINY 386 kernels) Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2007 23:10:49 +0200 Message-ID: <20070716211049.GA3537@lazybastard.org> References: <200707161722.53203.a1426z@gawab.com> <20070716165312.GA32647@lazybastard.org> <200707162023.04646.a1426z@gawab.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: =?utf-8?B?SsO2cm4=?= Engel , Satyam Sharma , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org To: Al Boldi Return-path: Received: from lazybastard.de ([212.112.238.170]:46030 "EHLO longford.lazybastard.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756399AbXGPVOX (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Jul 2007 17:14:23 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200707162023.04646.a1426z@gawab.com> Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org On Mon, 16 July 2007 20:23:04 +0300, Al Boldi wrote: > J=C3=B6rn Engel wrote: >=20 > > 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. >=20 > 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. >=20 > Well, if the patch is lean and optional and runtime configurable, the= n they=20 > 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. J=C3=B6rn --=20 Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, but not tried it. -- Donald Knuth - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel= " in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html