Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S272043AbTHDRTD (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Aug 2003 13:19:03 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S272044AbTHDRTD (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Aug 2003 13:19:03 -0400 Received: from zork.zork.net ([64.81.246.102]:57534 "EHLO zork.zork.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S272043AbTHDRTB (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Aug 2003 13:19:01 -0400 To: Hans Reiser Cc: Stephan von Krawczynski , Jesse Pollard , aebr@win.tue.nl, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, god@namesys.com, Vitaly@Namesys.COM Subject: Re: FS: hardlinks on directories References: <20030804141548.5060b9db.skraw@ithnet.com> <20030804134415.GA4454@win.tue.nl> <20030804155604.2cdb96e7.skraw@ithnet.com> <03080409334500.03650@tabby> <20030804170506.11426617.skraw@ithnet.com> <3F2E9145.5090407@namesys.com> From: Sean Neakums Mail-Followup-To: Hans Reiser , Stephan von Krawczynski , Jesse Pollard , aebr@win.tue.nl, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, god@namesys.com, Vitaly@Namesys.COM Date: Mon, 04 Aug 2003 18:18:30 +0100 In-Reply-To: <3F2E9145.5090407@namesys.com> (Hans Reiser's message of "Mon, 04 Aug 2003 21:00:53 +0400") Message-ID: <6uadape3yx.fsf@zork.zork.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 663 Lines: 15 Hans Reiser writes: > If you want hard linked directories, send us a patch for v4. Should > be VERY easy to write. If there is some reason it is not simple, let > me know. Discuss it with Vitaly though, it might affect fsck. The commentary above fs/namei.c:vfs_rename_dir indicates that the locking is already pretty tricky, and it seems to assume that a directory can have only one parent. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/