Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4

Trond Myklebust
2004-08-30T03:12:54Z

På su , 29/08/2004 klokka 22:31, skreiv Linus Torvalds:

> So together with the fact that nobody really _wants_ hardlinks to
> directories, I think the right answer is "no". It's not a problem as
> long as the attributes streams are always tied to the file/directory
> they are attributes of - then the "directory link" is really just a
> file link, and can't cause any cycles.

Right.

> Do we have any servers that implement it? I think NFSv4 might be a good
> test-case if so.

I believe Solaris Express already has an implementation, so I should
have at least one server implementation available in the basement.
So probably does Hummingbird, since their NFSv4 server runs on Windows.

CITI is working on the Linux code, but I'm not sure how far they've come
on the server side. I'll ask Bruce in the morning...

Cheers,
Trond