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| From | Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.python |
| Subject | Re: Hardlink sub-directories and files |
| Date | 2011-08-03 14:22 +0000 |
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On 2011-08-03, Kushal Kumaran <kushal.kumaran+python@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 7:29 AM, Dan Stromberg <drsalists@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 3:13 AM, Thomas Jollans <t@jollybox.de> wrote:
>>>
>>> On 02/08/11 11:32, loial wrote:
>>> > I am trying to hardlink all files in a directory structure using
>>> > os.link.
>>> >
>>> > However I do not think it is possible to hard link directories ?
>>
>> That is pretty true.?? I've heard of hardlinked directories on Solaris, but
>> that's kind of an exception to the general rule.
>
> In APUE, Richard Stevens says only root could do this,
Yep, in early versions of Solaris root could hard-link directories.
I did it once, and it's not something one did a second time. fsck
couldn't deal with it and pretty much fell over. IIRC, the only way
to recover was to clear several inodes manually and then let fsck
salvage things.
> if it is supported by the system at all. In a footnote, he
> additionally mentions he screwed up his filesystem by creating a loop
> of hardlinked directories while writing that section of the book.
That sounds about right.
> I suppose it is a good thing systems don't allow that now.
It wouldn't be a problem, except there are some important places in
Unix where it is assume that filesystems are trees. Hard linking
directories causes that assumption to be false.
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Hardlink sub-directories and files loial <jldunn2000@gmail.com> - 2011-08-02 02:32 -0700
Re: Hardlink sub-directories and files Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2011-08-02 12:01 +0200
Re: Hardlink sub-directories and files Thomas Jollans <t@jollybox.de> - 2011-08-02 12:13 +0200
Re: Hardlink sub-directories and files Tim Chase <python.list@tim.thechases.com> - 2011-08-02 06:17 -0500
Re: Hardlink sub-directories and files Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2011-08-02 21:46 -0700
Re: Hardlink sub-directories and files Kushal Kumaran <kushal.kumaran+python@gmail.com> - 2011-08-03 12:02 +0530
Re: Hardlink sub-directories and files Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2011-08-03 14:22 +0000
Re: Hardlink sub-directories and files Thomas Jollans <t@jollybox.de> - 2011-08-03 17:08 +0200
Re: Hardlink sub-directories and files Ned Deily <nad@acm.org> - 2011-08-03 12:57 -0700
Re: Hardlink sub-directories and files Nobody <nobody@nowhere.com> - 2011-08-03 08:04 +0100
Re: Hardlink sub-directories and files Thomas Jollans <t@jollybox.de> - 2011-08-03 11:47 +0200
Re: Hardlink sub-directories and files Thomas Jollans <t@jollybox.de> - 2011-08-03 20:49 +0200
Re: Hardlink sub-directories and files Thomas Jollans <t@jollybox.de> - 2011-08-03 23:54 +0200
Re: Hardlink sub-directories and files Alexander Gattin <xrgtn@yandex.ru> - 2011-08-08 10:07 +0300
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