Re: Question about hard links...
Athanasius (Athanasius@miggy.org)
Sat, 14 Aug 1999 22:44:33 +0100
On Thu, Aug 12, 1999 at 03:46:51PM -0400, Micahel Zappe wrote:
> I am working on a file system driver for linux, and have run into a
> problem with hard links. I am attempting to put per-directory quota
> support into the filesystem, rather than per-volume, and hard links
> across quota-spaces causes some tricky semantic issues. My favored
> solutions are 1) eliminate hard links from the fs, or 2) cause link() to
> create a symbolic link instead, emulating it's predicted behavior. Does
> anyone out there see any problems with the second solution that could
> arise? If it may cause problems, does anyone know of any popular
> applications that require hard links? Thanks in advance for your input!
Problem number 1: Many programs may make use of hard links to move a
file. It probably IS how rename() does it. It's certainly how I do it
in some code of mine.
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