Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4

viro
2004-08-29T23:29:09Z

On Sun, Aug 29, 2004 at 03:37:16PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > Sorry if my qestion is stupid, but why can't we deal with (hard)links to
> > directories in (nearly) same way we deal with bind mounts (= making
> > exactly one object representing target and only referencing to it)?
>
> On a VFS level we could, these days, I think. But realize that bind mounts
> and the vfsmounts are pretty recent things.

Bindings won't replace hardlinks.
a) lifetime rules and keeping stuff busy
b) who's bound on top? Note that for real hardlinks to directories
(not just "directory on top of file" hybrids) it's a serious question
c) for real hardlinks we would want at least rename() working