linux-kernel.vger.kernel.org archive mirror
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Nikita Danilov <nikita@clusterfs.com>
To: "Joshua Hudson" <joshudson@gmail.com>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <Linux-Kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: what is necessary for directory hard links
Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2006 10:42:28 +0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <17604.27604.359464.181718@gargle.gargle.HOWL> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <bda6d13a0607211457k596e912fx845c68c2daa298f6@mail.gmail.com>

Joshua Hudson writes:
 > Some people seem to think that I am proposing to do something.
 > Understand that I have done it for 2.6.17-rc4 and am currently
 > involved in bringing it forward to newer kernels.
 > 
 > >
 > > What is the parent of a hard linked directory?  What is the parent if
 > > the link in "the parent" is deleted?
 > 
 > The parent is any and all directories that contain a link to the
 > stated directory.  ".." points back along the path the referrer used
 > to reach the current directory (this behavior is already in kernel:
 > didn't have to lift a finger to get it).

That won't work for kernel NFS server, using ->get_parent() method to
obtain parent directory.

Well... this is probably the smallest problem with hard-linked
directories, though.

Nikita.


  reply	other threads:[~2006-07-24  6:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-07-21  1:04 what is necessary for directory hard links Joshua Hudson
2006-07-21 18:49 ` Horst H. von Brand
2006-07-21 20:28 ` Rob Sims
2006-07-21 21:57   ` Joshua Hudson
2006-07-24  6:42     ` Nikita Danilov [this message]
     [not found] <6ARGK-19L-5@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found] ` <6B8og-1iB-17@gated-at.bofh.it>
2006-07-22 16:59   ` Bodo Eggert
2006-07-22 18:13     ` Joshua Hudson
2006-07-24  6:45       ` Nikita Danilov
2006-07-24  7:25         ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2006-07-24 16:21           ` Joshua Hudson
2006-07-24 17:55             ` Horst H. von Brand
2006-07-24 18:22             ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2006-07-25  4:49               ` Joshua Hudson
2006-07-25 12:43                 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2006-07-25 14:47                 ` Horst H. von Brand
2006-07-23  2:19     ` Horst H. von Brand
2006-07-23 22:27       ` Vernon Mauery
2006-07-25 23:43       ` Peter Chubb
     [not found] <6CcT1-1lH-39@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found] ` <6Cwov-5xl-5@gated-at.bofh.it>
2006-07-25 21:28   ` Bodo Eggert
2006-07-26  1:00     ` Horst H. von Brand
2006-07-26  9:13       ` Bodo Eggert

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=17604.27604.359464.181718@gargle.gargle.HOWL \
    --to=nikita@clusterfs.com \
    --cc=Linux-Kernel@vger.kernel.org \
    --cc=joshudson@gmail.com \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body. 
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).