Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261741AbTHYP4G (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Aug 2003 11:56:06 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261815AbTHYP4A (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Aug 2003 11:56:00 -0400 Received: from rwcrmhc13.comcast.net ([204.127.198.39]:10197 "EHLO rwcrmhc13.comcast.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261741AbTHYPzz (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Aug 2003 11:55:55 -0400 Message-ID: <3F4A2FC7.1060602@namesys.com> Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2003 19:48:23 +0400 From: Hans Reiser User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Nikita Danilov CC: Helge Hafting , Stephan von Krawczynski , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Reiserfs List Subject: Re: FS: hardlinks on directories 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> <20030805220831.GA893@hh.idb.hist.no> <3F48F77D.7040907@namesys.com> <16201.51310.181117.716100@laputa.namesys.com> In-Reply-To: <16201.51310.181117.716100@laputa.namesys.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.76.4.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1281 Lines: 51 Nikita Danilov wrote: >Hans Reiser writes: > > > >[...] > > > So, he needs links that count as references, links that don't count as > > references but disappear if the object disappears (without dangling like > > symlinks), and unlinkall(), which removes an object and all of its > > links. He needs for the first reference to a directory to be removable > > only by removing all links to the object, or designating another link to > > be the "first" reference. > > > > Sounds clean to me. > >Will surely continue to be this way until you start implementing. :) > > > This is not to say that I am funded to write > > it.;-) I'd look at a patch though.....;-) > > > > I need to write up a taxonomy of links..... after reiser4 ships..... > >http://www.namesys.com/v4/links-taxonomy.html > > > > > -- > > Hans > > > >Nikita. > > > > > > > I meant one that is intelligible to the reader and comes with a detailed explanation.;-) Also, I am sure we need another round of seminars on it. -- Hans - 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/