On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 9:44 AM, Alan Coopersmith <alan.coopersm...@oracle.com> wrote: > On 06/26/12 05:46 AM, Lionel Cons wrote: >> On 25 June 2012 11:33, <casper....@oracle.com> wrote: >>> To be honest, I think we should also remove this from all other >>> filesystems and I think ZFS was created this way because all modern >>> filesystems do it that way. >> >> This may be wrong way to go if it breaks existing applications which >> rely on this feature. It does break applications in our case. > > Existing applications rely on the ability to corrupt UFS filesystems? > Sounds horrible.
My guess is that the OP just wants unlink() of an empty directory to be the same as rmdir() of the same. Or perhaps they want unlink() of a non-empty directory to result in a recursive rm... But if they really want hardlinks to directories, then yeah, that's horrible. Nico -- _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
