From: Peter Samuelson <peter@cadcamlab.org>
To: Remi Turk <remi@a2zis.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: CLONE_NAMESPACE, links for dirs and mount(2) for normal users questions
Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2000 21:13:27 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20001128211327.K8881@wire.cadcamlab.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3A1FFA2C.A8980FD8@a2zis.com>
In-Reply-To: <3A1FFA2C.A8980FD8@a2zis.com>; from remi@a2zis.com on Sat, Nov 25, 2000 at 06:43:08PM +0100
[Remi Turk]
> Do I understand correctly that this means hardlinks to directories
> (except . and ..) are fundamentally impossible in Linux?
Why do you want to be able to do that? Use symlinks or loopback mounts
and stay out of trouble.
> (I'm thinking about trying to write a garbage collected filesystem
> with hardlinks to directories.)
Sounds like a lot of extra complexity. Is this academic or do you have
a practical use for it?
Peter
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2000-11-25 17:43 Remi Turk
2000-11-29 3:13 ` Peter Samuelson [this message]
2000-11-30 6:31 ` Remi Turk
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