Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 30 Nov 2000 07:31:48 +0100 | From | Remi Turk <> | Subject | Re: CLONE_NAMESPACE, links for dirs and mount(2) for normal users questions |
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Peter Samuelson wrote: > > [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.
Probably just because I'm crazy ;-) Of course I could use symlinks or loopback mounts, but it itn't nearly as much fun as a directory which really contains itself :-)
> > (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?
Acedemic. Well, I might find some practical use for it some day.
(I got inspired by an old thread about garbage collecting filesystems without a clear answer about whether it was possible to write one in Linux (http://www.uwsg.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0001.1/0410.html) and the recent thread "[BUG] Inconsistent behaviour of rmdir")
> > Peter
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