Messages in this thread | | | From | "Stefan Monnier" <monnier+lists/linux/kernel/news/@tequila.cs.yale.edu> | Subject | Re: Question about hard links... | Date | 16 Aug 1999 07:54:58 -0400 |
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>>>>> "Alexander" == Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu> writes: > On Thu, 12 Aug 1999, Micahel Zappe wrote: >> 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 > It doesn't make sense. Directory doesn't contain files. It refers to them.
Come on. You know very well that by pretending that each directory is a mount point you get this containment behavior that you claim "doesn't make sense".
Allowing hard-links across those pseudo-mount-points is probably too much trouble, so only hardlinks within a directory should be allowed.
Hard-links within a quota-space are not as easy to handle properly as it seems since you have to somehow deal with the case where you suddenly divide one quota-space into two.
Stefan
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