Date: Thu, 26 Dec 1996 17:29:31 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Cc: ben@narcissus.ml.org, owensc@enc.edu Subject: Re: multi-group file access techniques Message-ID: <199612261629.RAA08400@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.FBS.3.93.961226100737.24466B-100000@dingo.its.enc.edu> from Charles Owens at "Dec 26, 96 10:41:59 am"
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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. ;-)
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