Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S272608AbTHEJl3 (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Aug 2003 05:41:29 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S272609AbTHEJl3 (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Aug 2003 05:41:29 -0400 Received: from mail3.ithnet.com ([217.64.64.7]:48774 "HELO heather-ng.ithnet.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S272608AbTHEJl2 (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Aug 2003 05:41:28 -0400 X-Sender-Authentification: SMTPafterPOP by from 217.64.64.14 Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2003 11:41:25 +0200 From: Stephan von Krawczynski To: Neil Brown Cc: muizelaar@rogers.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mru@users.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: FS: hardlinks on directories Message-Id: <20030805114125.30a12916.skraw@ithnet.com> In-Reply-To: <16175.6729.962817.135747@gargle.gargle.HOWL> References: <20030804141548.5060b9db.skraw@ithnet.com> <20030804152226.60204b61.skraw@ithnet.com> <3F2E7C63.2000203@rogers.com> <20030804181500.074aec51.skraw@ithnet.com> <16175.6729.962817.135747@gargle.gargle.HOWL> Organization: ith Kommunikationstechnik GmbH X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.4 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1159 Lines: 36 On Tue, 5 Aug 2003 12:45:29 +1000 Neil Brown wrote: > On Monday August 4, skraw@ithnet.com wrote: > > On Mon, 04 Aug 2003 11:31:47 -0400 > > Jeff Muizelaar 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 - 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/