Re: FS: hardlinks on directories

From: Nikita Danilov
Date: Mon Aug 25 2003 - 03:28:18 EST


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.

>
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