On Sat, Dec 30, 2006 at 11:28:55AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >Bascially ZFS pass all my tests (about 3000). I see one problem with UFS > >and two differences: > > That's good; do you have those tests published anywhere.
I'll publish them once I finish with Linux. They already work for FreeBSD/UFS, FreeBSD/ZFS, Solaris/UFS and Solaris/ZFS. > >1. link(2) manual page states that privileged processes can make > > multiple links to a directory. This looks like a general comment, but > > it's only true for UFS. > > Solaris UFS doesn't deal gracefully with that. (Fsck will complain and > fix the fs and two fsck passes are generally needed.) > > An argument can be made to ban this for UFS too. > > (Some of the other fses do support this, like tmpfs) Maybe it's just worth mentioning in the manual page which file systems support this feature. > >2. link(2) in UFS allows to remove directories, but doesn't allow this > > in ZFS. > > Link with the target being a directory and the source a any file or > only directories? And only as superuer? I'm sorry, I ment unlink(2) here. -- Pawel Jakub Dawidek http://www.wheel.pl [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer Am I Evil? Yes, I Am!
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