On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 8:41 AM, Kent Tenney <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> >> - clones become equivalent to symlinks, with a
> >> target node, link nodes.
> >
> > In essence, that's what they are.  The vnodes "link" to the shared
> > tnode.
>
> Right, but this is not about essence, but details.
>
> Clones cannot be emulated on the filesystem, since they are equivalent
> to hard links which point to directories, which is verboten.


As I just explained, the desire to eliminate sentinels seems a bit
misplaced.

To make your ideas work, I think we need a new context for invention.  It
may be possible;  I don't see it at present.

Edward

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