David Masover wrote:
>Hans Reiser wrote:
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>>Hubert Chan wrote:
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>>>On Fri, 01 Jul 2005 03:06:19 -0500, David Masover <[email protected]> said:
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>>>>Hubert Chan wrote:
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>>>>>The main thing blocking file-as-dir is that there are some
>>>>>locking(IIRC?) issues. And, of course, some people wouldn't want it
>>>>>to be merged into the mainline kernel. (Of course, the latter
>>>>>doesn't prevent Namesys from maintaining their own patches for people
>>>>>to play around with.)
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>>>>What's the locking issue? I think that was more about transactions...
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>>>It was whatever was Al Viro's (technical) complaint about file-as-dir.
>>>I don't remember exactly what it was. The technical people know what it
>>>is (and the Namesys guys are probably working on it), and the exact
>>>issue doesn't concern us non-technical people that much, so I don't feel
>>>like looking it up. But if you want to, just look for Al Viro's message
>>>in this thread.
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>>Cycle detection when hard links to directories are allowed. There is a
>>debate over whether cycle detection is feasible that can only be
>>resolved by working code or a formal proof that it is not
>>computationally feasible.
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>Ah. But then, one solution was to avoid the issue at all, and have the
>directory inside a file act as a mountpoint. After all, mount --bind
>doesn't cause problems...
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Can you explain this idea at greater length?
>Hey! This sounds like metafs (/meta) already! I wonder if we can do
>file-as-dir in /meta, and just not support user-created hardlinks there?
> (other than creating brand-new files, of course...)
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