Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S272810AbTHEOEj (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Aug 2003 10:04:39 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S272811AbTHEOEj (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Aug 2003 10:04:39 -0400 Received: from mail3.ithnet.com ([217.64.64.7]:62365 "HELO heather-ng.ithnet.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S272810AbTHEOEh (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Aug 2003 10:04:37 -0400 X-Sender-Authentification: SMTPafterPOP by from 217.64.64.14 Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2003 16:04:35 +0200 From: Stephan von Krawczynski To: root@chaos.analogic.com Cc: helgehaf@aitel.hist.no, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: FS: hardlinks on directories Message-Id: <20030805160435.7b151b0e.skraw@ithnet.com> In-Reply-To: References: <20030804141548.5060b9db.skraw@ithnet.com> <03080409334500.03650@tabby> <20030804170506.11426617.skraw@ithnet.com> <03080416092800.04444@tabby> <20030805003210.2c7f75f6.skraw@ithnet.com> <3F2FA862.2070401@aitel.hist.no> <20030805150351.5b81adfe.skraw@ithnet.com> 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: 1301 Lines: 33 On Tue, 5 Aug 2003 09:36:37 -0400 (EDT) "Richard B. Johnson" wrote: > A hard-link is, by definition, indistinguishable from the original > entry. In fact, with fast machines and the course granularity of > file-system times, even the creation time may be exactly the > same. Hello Richard, I really don't mind if you call the thing I am looking for a hardlink or a chicken. And I am really not sticking to creating them by ln or mount or just about anything else. I am, too, not bound to making them permanent on the media. All I really want to do is to _export_ them via nfs. And guys, looking at mount -bind makes me think someone else (before poor me) needed just about the same thing. So, instead of constantly feeding my bad conscience, can some kind soul explain the possibilities to make "mount -bind/rbind" work over a network fs of some flavor, please? Regards, Stephan PS: if you ever want to find out what *nix people are carrying guns, just enter the room and cry out loud "directory hardlinks to the left!" ;-) - 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/