On Fri, 2010-02-12 at 19:28 -0800, Suvayu Ali wrote: > > I'm not sure I understand what you're asking here. If something is > > decided by the kernel, surely it's universal isn't it? > > By universal I meant something determined by the filesystem. Would > the > restriction still be there if I were to use ext4 with a kernel > (something other than linux) that supported such hardlinks? No idea. In theory a non-Linux system could allow hard links to directories if it wanted to (it's certainly not hard to do), but I don't know if the ext4 specification has anything to say about it. poc -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines