On Tue, 05 Jul 2005 20:50:08 -0400 EDT, "Alexander G. M. Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> That sounds equivalent to no hard links (other than the usual parent > directory one). If there's any directory with two links to it, then > there will be a cycle somewhere! What we want is no directed cycles. That is A is the parent of B is the parent of C is the parent of A. We don't care about A is the parent of B is the parent of C; A is the parent of B is the parent of C. OK, here's a random idea that just popped into my head, and to which I've given little thought (read: none whatsoever), and may be the stupidest idea ever proposed on LKML, but thought I would just toss it out to see if it could stimulate someone to come up with something better (read: sane): Conceptually, foo/.... is just a symlink to /meta/[filesystem]/[inode of foo]. And a question: is it feasible to store, for each inode, its parent(s), instead of just the hard link count? -- Hubert Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - http://www.uhoreg.ca/ PGP/GnuPG key: 1024D/124B61FA Fingerprint: 96C5 012F 5F74 A5F7 1FF7 5291 AF29 C719 124B 61FA Key available at wwwkeys.pgp.net. Encrypted e-mail preferred. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
