Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S268233AbUIBK4t (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Sep 2004 06:56:49 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S268206AbUIBKyU (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Sep 2004 06:54:20 -0400 Received: from mail3.ithnet.com ([217.64.64.7]:2702 "HELO ithnet.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S268243AbUIBKv7 (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Sep 2004 06:51:59 -0400 X-Sender-Authentication: net64 Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2004 12:51:56 +0200 From: Stephan von Krawczynski To: Linus Torvalds Cc: kangur@polcom.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4 Message-Id: <20040902125156.2dc6fe97.skraw@ithnet.com> In-Reply-To: References: <412F7D63.4000109@namesys.com> <20040827230857.69340aec.pj@sgi.com> <20040829150231.GE9471@alias> <4132205A.9080505@namesys.com> <20040829183629.GP21964@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> <20040829185744.GQ21964@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> <41323751.5000607@namesys.com> <20040829212700.GA16297@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> Organization: ith Kommunikationstechnik GmbH X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.12 (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: 1100 Lines: 28 On Sun, 29 Aug 2004 15:37:16 -0700 (PDT) Linus Torvalds wrote: > [...] > And even if Linux _these days_ could handle hardlinked directories, the > fact is that they would cause slightly more memory usage (due to the > vfsmounts), and that nobody else can handle such filesystems - including > older versions of Linux. So nobody would likely use the feature (not to > mention that nobody is even really asking for it ;). Huh? Me about a year ago ;-) Been in fact pretty much boo'd for it :-) I therefore declare as this years hot issue: How to use more than 32 GIDs on nfs? Frank van Maarseveens' patch being available for years I guess, but with 2.6 supporting lots of GIDs becoming very actual... :-))) Sorry for being a bit off-topic but shouldn't we first solve the obvious (broken) and simple issues around fs? 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/