Horst von Brand wrote:
Hans Reiser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:Put in (undoubtedly overly) simple terms, if you can do it to a file you can do it to the file personality, but if you currently can only do it to a directory and get an error from attempting it to a file then in the new scheme doing it to the hard link only gives the same error.
Horst von Brand wrote:
Spam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
Christer Weinigel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
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2. How do we want to expose named streams?
One suggestion is file-as-directory in some form.
Which is broken, as it forbids hard links to files.
No, it forbids hard links to the directory aspect of the file-directory duality.
How do you distinguish a "hard link to the directory personality" from "hard link to the file personality"?
Or, we can ask Alexander to help us use his deadlock detection algorithm and try to do things right....
