From: AYAN TYAGI <ayan.tyagi@gmail.com>
To: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Fallthrus as full-length symlinks?
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2009 19:57:02 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <62b7cf460911161657i2c9ca63cv5e4fa65b514593b@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <62b7cf460911151915k12c57c6dne9b49399bd8ce9d5@mail.gmail.com>
> >Another idea that I first had when reading the suggestion was to use a
> >symlink to self (ln -s x x) as the encoding for a fallthrough. It does
> >not allow renames like what you really describe, but it has another advantage
> >in that it does not require extensions to the upper file system layout
> >while not conflicting with any use case I can see.
It seems to be a great idea to make use of self referenced symlinks .
Could you please describe the whole process u are proposing?
If possible give some example and code .
next parent reply other threads:[~2009-11-17 0:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2009-11-17 0:57 ` AYAN TYAGI [this message]
2009-11-17 6:44 ` Fallthrus as full-length symlinks? Jamie Lokier
2009-11-17 8:03 ` AYAN TYAGI
2009-11-17 19:47 ` Valerie Aurora
2009-11-13 17:46 Valerie Aurora
2009-11-13 18:46 ` Erez Zadok
2009-11-13 19:55 ` Arnd Bergmann
2009-11-17 19:06 ` Valerie Aurora
2009-11-17 19:13 ` Valerie Aurora
2009-11-17 19:18 ` David Woodhouse
2009-11-17 19:43 ` Valerie Aurora
2009-11-17 20:20 ` Erez Zadok
2009-11-23 18:26 ` Valerie Aurora
2009-11-23 18:44 ` Arnd Bergmann
2009-11-25 2:12 ` Valerie Aurora
2009-11-24 11:18 ` Miklos Szeredi
2009-11-18 5:47 ` hooanon05
2009-11-25 2:15 ` Valerie Aurora
2009-11-25 2:36 ` hooanon05
2009-11-25 9:43 ` David Woodhouse
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