From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Dec 26 08:52:25 1996 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id IAA27186 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 26 Dec 1996 08:52:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id IAA27180 for ; Thu, 26 Dec 1996 08:52:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id RAA14058; Thu, 26 Dec 1996 17:50:56 +0100 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id RAA13333; Thu, 26 Dec 1996 17:50:56 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.4/8.6.9) id RAA08400; Thu, 26 Dec 1996 17:29:32 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199612261629.RAA08400@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: multi-group file access techniques To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Thu, 26 Dec 1996 17:29:31 +0100 (MET) Cc: ben@narcissus.ml.org, owensc@enc.edu Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: from Charles Owens at "Dec 26, 96 10:41:59 am" X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL17 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Charles Owens wrote: > >From what I've gleaned from these postings, one of the biggest problems > with them is the potential for creating loops in the file tree, which fsck > is generally very unhappy about. If one is very careful not to create Our fsck were always very unhappy about additional hardlinks to directories. > such loops _is_ it possible to safely employ hard-linked directories (and > keep fsck happy) ? I can certainly see that they're very dangerous, but > can they be used safely with FreeBSD? Anyone? Directory hardlinks are impossible in FreeBSD. They have been discontinued quite some time ago. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)