Re: FS: hardlinks on directories

From: Sean Neakums (sneakums@zork.net)
Date: Mon Aug 04 2003 - 12:18:30 EST


Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com> writes:

> If you want hard linked directories, send us a patch for v4. Should
> be VERY easy to write. If there is some reason it is not simple, let
> me know. Discuss it with Vitaly though, it might affect fsck.

The commentary above fs/namei.c:vfs_rename_dir indicates that the
locking is already pretty tricky, and it seems to assume that a
directory can have only one parent.

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