Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 4 Aug 2003 15:37:01 +0200 | From | Christian Reichert <> | Subject | Re: FS: hardlinks on directories |
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Hi !
the fundamental problem as i know it is that the FS design in unix is based on a directory TREE structure - however if you implement hard links for directories you are breaking this strict treeu structure and can end up with loops/graphs.
(What are the cases where a symlink wouldn't be enough ?)
Cheers,
Chris
Zitat von Stephan von Krawczynski <skraw@ithnet.com>:
> On Mon, 04 Aug 2003 14:45:58 +0200 > mru@users.sourceforge.net (Måns Rullgård) wrote: > > > Stephan von Krawczynski <skraw@ithnet.com> writes: > > > > > although it is very likely I am entering (again :-) an ancient > > > discussion I would like to ask why hardlinks on directories are not > > > allowed/no supported fs action these days. I can't think of a good > > > reason for this, but can think of many good reasons why one would > > > like to have such a function, amongst those: > > > > I don't know the exact reasons it isn't allowed, but you can always > > use "mount --bind" to get a similar effect. > > I guess this is not really an option if talking about hundreds or thousands > of > "links", is it? > > Regards, > Stephan > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ >
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