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- Path: in1.uu.net!DIALix!metapro!bernie
- From: bernie@metapro.DIALix.oz.au (Bernd Felsche)
- Subject: Re: Hard links to directories?
- Message-ID: <DLo8x2.L9w@metapro.DIALix.oz.au>
- Organization: MetaPro Systems, Perth, Western Australia
- References: <19960121.756ADC0.10622@contessa.phone.net>
- Date: Wed, 24 Jan 1996 06:05:26 GMT
-
- In <19960121.756ADC0.10622@contessa.phone.net>
- mwm@contessa.phone.net (Mike Meyer) writes:
-
- >I've got a problem that I normally solve with hard links - I need two
- >directories to be shared between chrooted processes with different
- >root directories.
-
- >The system has no problems with creating such hard links. However,
- >fsck complains about them, making my life miserable at times. Which
- >leaves two questions:
-
- >1) Is there another solution to the problem at hand which doesn't have
- > this problem?
-
- Perhaps "mount" on a loopback?
-
- >2) Are there any plans to allow fsck to not treat this as an
- > unexpected inconsistency?
-
- drm thought it a bad idea 20 years ago because of the difficulty
- in resolving circular references - and fsck really barfs when this
- sort of thing happens! :-(
- --
- Bernd Felsche {speaking for himself}
- MetaPro Systems Pty Ltd, 130 Fauntleroy Avenue,
- Redcliffe, Western Australia 6104
- Phone: +61 9 479 3722 Fax: +61 9 479 3720
-