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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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