From owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 23 13:44:32 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1866E16A4F0; Mon, 23 Oct 2006 13:44:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fjoe@neo.samodelkin.net) Received: from neo.samodelkin.net (samodelkin.net [195.62.0.66]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED01F43D97; Mon, 23 Oct 2006 13:22:13 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from fjoe@neo.samodelkin.net) Received: by neo.samodelkin.net (Postfix, from userid 1000) id E605A170C5; Mon, 23 Oct 2006 20:22:04 +0700 (NOVST) Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2006 20:22:04 +0700 From: Max Khon To: Joerg Schilling Message-ID: <20061023132204.GB73780@samodelkin.net> References: <45223d3d.5Il+WW9HwkAuGvSH%Joerg.Schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de> <4522AB6D.9050309@elischer.org> <4522aec5.4ZbRSHkZMuJ7r3BT%Joerg.Schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4522aec5.4ZbRSHkZMuJ7r3BT%Joerg.Schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2i Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, julian@elischer.org Subject: Re: Reliable hard links with mkisofs/ISO-9660/RR X-BeenThere: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Filesystems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2006 13:44:32 -0000 Hi! On Tue, Oct 03, 2006 at 08:41:09PM +0200, Joerg Schilling wrote: > > > I just started to implement a long planned extension to mkisofs > > > and Solaris hsfs that will allow hard links to work correctly. > > > > > > Is there any interest to also support this on FreeBSD? > > > > > > > Sorry to be obtuse, but if you write it in mkisofs then won't it > > automatically be supported > > on FreeBSD when we use mkisofs? > > > > Is it possible that you are asking about our kernel isofs support? > > FreeBSD currently seems to bascally implement the same fake inode algorithm > as SunOS does since ~ 1989. > > I did extend mkisofs during the past days and started to extend hsfs from > Solaris. Once I am ready, I could present the results in case there is someone > who is willing to work on the FreeBSD filesystem module, I could explain what > needs to be done. Please do. /fjoe