Bakul Shah <[email protected]> writes: > Ask yourself *why* do you need it. Is it just convenience > (what you are used to) or is there something you do that > absolutely requires hard links? Next compare the benefit > of hardlinks to their cost. It is worth it?
I'm trying to create a data structure in the form of a directed acyclic graph (DAG). A file system would be an ideal way to represent the data, except that P9 exposes no transaction to give a node more than one name. I could store the data in a P9 file system tree and maintain a set of links in, say $home/lib/bindrc.d/myDAG. But, every time I copy/relocate/distribute the tree, I would have to include the myDAG bindings. It would be much nicer if the structure of the data embodied in the data itself. ATM, I'm thinking about creating a DAGfs backed by pq. That way, standard file utilities could still be used be used to manipulate the data. However, that solution strikes me as being suspiciously similar to creating a new disk file system. (How many do we have, already?) -- +---------------------------------------------------------------+ |E-Mail: [email protected] PGP key ID: BC549F8B| |Fingerprint: 9329 DB4A 30F5 6EDA D2BA 3489 DAB7 555A BC54 9F8B| +---------------------------------------------------------------+
