David Masover wrote: >Now, can anyone think of a situation where we want user-created >hardlinks inside metadata? More importantly, what do we do about it? > > I think the equivalent of symlinks would be good enough to get by on for now for most linking of metafiles. Maybe some years from now somebody can fault me for saying this and write a patch to fix it to be better, at which point I will be happy to concede the point.
So the basic principal here is, one can have hardlinks to directories without cycles provided that one does not allow any child of the directory to have a hardlink. The question is, how cleanly can that relaxed restriction be coded? Hans
