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Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2006 13:12:03 +1100
From: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
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To: Horst von Brand <vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 02/27] allow hard links to directories, opt-in for any
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Horst von Brand wrote:
> Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> wrote:
> 
>>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.
> 
> 
> Right.
> 
> 
>>You have to put forward a case for why we want it, rather than show us
>>your filesystem that "wants" it. Right?
> 
> 
> Nope.

What do you mean nope?

I know why unix didn't allow loops in the filesystem tree. I'm just
saying that you have to justify a feature before adding it. If he was
able to nicely solve problems with loops and show some application
that benefits from it, then it could be considered for Linux.

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SUSE Labs, Novell Inc.
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