On Wed, 2007-11-07 at 11:59 -0500, Albert Cahalan wrote: > I'm hearing that files will be provided to activites as hard links. > > This is not good. It prevents atomic update via rename. > Far better is to provide directories, one per file, so that > updates can be made atomic. While you can't hard link a directory, > you can bind mount it. This is essentially the same, with the > extra benefit of not wearing out nand storage. > > The command line version: mount --bind srcdir dstdir > > You can even make the mount read-only, avoiding any need to > mess with file permissions to block writes.
Just read in http://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/linux/BindMounts that this is not possible. Is that guy wrong? > Handling groups of files together as a single unit also becomes > possible; it happens that I actually need this. (think OSX forks) How relate bind-mounts to files with resource forks? Tomeu _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel