Sure you can do it, and why do you think that will go away? People who use
ext2 for that today are welcome to continue.
> Novell doesnt have a real "." and "..". The novell 3 bugs with . and ..
> handling speak volumes for why this was a bad idea.
Umm.. We _never_ use "." and ".." in filesystems. Never.
So claiming it would introduce bugs is just silly.
> Personally I'm pretty sure that in 5 years time Linux will support very
> large amounts of RAM, a lot of processors, direct DMA I/O on file systems
> concurrent writes to a file and journalling.
Almost certainly. But it's not going to be done badly.
Linus
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