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.

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