Re: Finding hardlinks

[Mikulas Patocka]

On Thu, 28 Dec 2006, Arjan van de Ven wrote:

> > It seems like the posix idea of unique <st_dev, st_ino> doesn't
> > hold water for modern file systems
>
> are you really sure?
> and if so, why don't we fix *THAT* instead, rather than adding racy
> syscalls and such that just can't really be used right...

Why don't you rip off the support for colliding inode number from the 
kernel at all (i.e. remove iget5_locked)?

It's reasonable to have either no support for colliding ino_t or full 
support for that (including syscalls that userspace can use to work with 
such filesystem) --- but I don't see any point in having half-way support 
in kernel as is right now.

As for syscall races --- if you pack something with tar and the directory 
changes underneath, you can't expect sane output anyway.

Mikulas
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