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- From: mwm@contessa.phone.net (Mike Meyer)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.amiga
- Subject: Re: Hard links to directories (and now lfs)
- Date: Fri, 26 Jan 1996 12:29:09 PST
- Organization: Missionaria Phonibalonica
- Distribution: world
- Message-ID: <19960126.75F74D0.B15D@contessa.phone.net>
- References: <19960121.756ADC0.10622@contessa.phone.net> <DLo8x2.L9w@metapro.DIALix.oz.au>
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- In <DLo8x2.L9w@metapro.DIALix.oz.au>, bernie@metapro.DIALix.oz.au (Bernd Felsche) wrote:
- > >1) Is there another solution to the problem at hand which doesn't have
- > > this problem?
- > Perhaps "mount" on a loopback?
-
- Except that mount_lofs seems to not be on my system. However,
- mount_null does the job quite nicely. Except there are as many null
- entries in fstab as there are real file systems.
- >
- > >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! :-(
-
- Are you sure it wasn't more years ago than that? In any case, that's
- why creating links to directories has been "root-only" or
- "unavailable" in various unix flavors as time goes by. The kernel
- needs to be tweaked to disallow hard links to directories, as opposed
- to just the "ln" command.
-
- Symlinks (the gotos of file systems) NEVER cause those kinds of
- problems.
-
- Next question: any online documentation on lfs? Looks interesting from
- waht I can see here.
-
- <mike
-