Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 01 Mar 2006 13:12:03 +1100 | From | Nick Piggin <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 02/27] allow hard links to directories, opt-in for any filesystem |
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Horst von Brand wrote: > Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> wrote: > >>Joshua Hudson wrote: >> >>>Patch seems to work, might want more testing. >>>It probably should not be applied without a discussion, especially >>>as no filesystem in kernel tree wants this. I am working on a fs that does. > > >>This is backwards I think. This is not disallowed because there are >>no filesystems that want it. Linux doesn't want it so it is disallowed >>by the vfs. > > > Right. > > >>You have to put forward a case for why we want it, rather than show us >>your filesystem that "wants" it. Right? > > > Nope.
What do you mean nope?
I know why unix didn't allow loops in the filesystem tree. I'm just saying that you have to justify a feature before adding it. If he was able to nicely solve problems with loops and show some application that benefits from it, then it could be considered for Linux.
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