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Re: Hardlink sub-directories and files

Date 2011-08-03 17:08 +0200
From Thomas Jollans <t@jollybox.de>
Subject Re: Hardlink sub-directories and files
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On 03/08/11 16:22, Grant Edwards wrote:
> On 2011-08-03, Kushal Kumaran <kushal.kumaran+python@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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.
> 

It is generally assumed that ".." is clearly defined, i.e. that every
directory has a parent. With hard linked directories, this would break down.

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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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