> > Aren't there some assumptions in VFS that currently make this > > impossible? > > I believe it's OK with VFS, but applications would be confused to death. > Well, there really is one issue -- dentries have exactly one parent, so > what do you do when opening a file with hardlinks as a directory? (In > fact IIRC that is what lead to all the funny talk about mountpoints, > since they don't have this limitation) OK, that makes sense. It would be quite interesting to see how applications react. Maybe I'll hack something up :) Thanks, Miklos - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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