Re: Question about hard links...

allbery@kf8nh.apk.net
Sun, 15 Aug 1999 20:00:42 -0400 (EDT)

On 13 Aug, Peter Benie wrote:
+-----
| Micahel Zappe writes ("Question about hard links..."):
| > I am working on a file system driver for linux, and have run into a
| > problem with hard links. I am attempting to put per-directory quota
| > support into the filesystem, rather than per-volume, and hard links
| > across quota-spaces causes some tricky semantic issues. My favored
| > solutions are 1) eliminate hard links from the fs
|
| Don't eliminate hard links if you want locking (eg. by xauth) to work.
+--->8

AFS's solution to this is to only allow hardlinks within the same
directory. This is overkill because AFS quotas are per volume, not
per directory, but it does allow locking to work.

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