Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751594AbWB1LwY (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Feb 2006 06:52:24 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751617AbWB1LwX (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Feb 2006 06:52:23 -0500 Received: from smtp101.mail.mud.yahoo.com ([209.191.85.211]:8362 "HELO smtp101.mail.mud.yahoo.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1751607AbWB1LwW (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Feb 2006 06:52:22 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com.au; h=Received:Message-ID:Date:From:User-Agent:X-Accept-Language:MIME-Version:To:CC:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=uhU23w20I65Iqm1Z/i9CSmOWr5QydaRZWAHWzdSAkTGClTeyL4f49+OvuUduy9M/9AjkEBb6HJId9kHML1nS+iTIdS2OJnBWmJFxmQdV/9pjiCAdnEC/CtMAq33gaYZuM9bCZXjZg8Wjd1LErNmu3Hfvuq6OFxdWHET2V0Ay9iI= ; Message-ID: <44043973.4070202@yahoo.com.au> Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 22:52:19 +1100 From: Nick Piggin User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20051007 Debian/1.7.12-1 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Joshua Hudson CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 02/27] allow hard links to directories, opt-in for any filesystem References: In-Reply-To: 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: 831 Lines: 21 Joshua Hudson wrote: > Patch seems to work, might want more testing. > It probably should not be applied without a discussion, especially > as no filesystem in kernel tree wants this. I am working on a fs that does. > This is backwards I think. This is not disallowed because there are no filesystems that want it. Linux doesn't want it so it is disallowed by the vfs. You have to put forward a case for why we want it, rather than show us your filesystem that "wants" it. Right? -- SUSE Labs, Novell Inc. Send instant messages to your online friends http://au.messenger.yahoo.com - 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/