Re: FS: hardlinks on directories

Stephan von Krawczynski
2003-08-05T09:41:29Z

On Tue, 5 Aug 2003 12:45:29 +1000
Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au> wrote:

> On Monday August 4, skraw@ithnet.com wrote:
> > On Mon, 04 Aug 2003 11:31:47 -0400
> > Jeff Muizelaar <muizelaar@rogers.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Stephan von Krawczynski wrote:
> > >
> > > >
> > > >I guess this is not really an option if talking about hundreds or
> > > >thousands of"links", is it?
> > > >
> > > >
> > > actually hundreds or thounds still should be ok. See...
> >
> > Hm, and I just found out that re-exporting "mount --bind" volumes does not
> > work over nfs...
> >
> > Is this correct, Neil?
>
> Yes, though there is a reasonable chance that it can be made to work
> with linux-2.6.0 and nfs-utils-1.1.0 (neither of which have been
> released yet:-)

Is this a complex issue? Can you imagine a not-too-big sized patch can make it
work in 2.4? What is the basic reason it does in fact not work?

Regards,
Stephan