On Mon, 14 Aug 2000, James Sutherland wrote:
> >From NT's point of view, they are just similarly named files, joined at
> the inode (i.e. common permissions, [acm]time etc). We can support this
> under Linux as well, at least on NTFS, without any real silliness creeping
> in - and the VFS needn't know anything about this (it will just see some
> similar looking files). Renaming one component of such a file will break
> this join; renaming the other components will reunite them. On ext2 etc.,
> they are just normal files.
Great. Now, tell me please, what should happen when two pieces with
different permissions and owners join?
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