Date: Tue, 21 Mar 1995 02:06:42 -0800 From: David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM> To: "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@estienne.CS.Berkeley.EDU> Cc: Steven Wallace <swallace@ece.uci.edu>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: sym links Message-ID: <199503211006.CAA01619@corbin.Root.COM> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 21 Mar 95 01:43:18 PST." <199503210943.BAA07270@estienne.cs.berkeley.edu>
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>>>symbolic links are stored entirely in the directory entry and thus >>>carry the same time stamp info as the directory. >> >> Well, that's how POSIX would have it...but in FFS they are stored in the >>inode if short and in a regular disk block if long. They're only made to >>appear like they have no inode associated with them. I wouldn't object if we >>went back to the old way of doing this - with symlinks having an inode. The >>problem of a regular user not being able to delete a symlink he created in >>/tmp is one of the many problems with the way we have it now. >> >>-DG > >What's the speed penalty for going back to 4.3 behavior? None that I know of; the inode information is already available...unless you're refering to the human time to change the code back. :-) -DG
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