Re: Can't hardlink in different dirs. (BUG#826)

Alexander Viro (viro@math.psu.edu)
Fri, 3 Dec 1999 16:58:27 -0500 (EST)


On 3 Dec 1999, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:

> In article <cistron.Pine.LNX.4.10.9912032047110.902-100000@alpha.random>,
> Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de> wrote:
> >On Fri, 3 Dec 1999, Alexander Viro wrote:
> >
> >>Andrea, WHAT FOR? Give a rationale for your change, other than "let's
> >>change it". Name a single benefit of proposed semantics.
> >
> >The rational is that I don't want to see my inodes sparse around the fs by
> >an luser.
>
> Make it a mount option that defaults to off and be done with it

Occam's Razor...

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