Re: [PATCH v3] Add an option not to use link(src, dest) && unlink(src) when that is unreliable

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Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Maybe the config option shouldn't be a boolean, but a "how to instantiate 
> objects". IOW, we could do
>
> 	[core]
> 		createobject = {link|rename}
>
> instead. Maybe we some day could allow "inplace", for some totally broken 
> system that supports neither renames nor links, and just wants the object 
> to be created with the final name to start with.
>
> (Ok, that sounds unlikely, but I mention it because it's an example of the 
> concept. Maybe somebody likes crazy databases, and would like to have a 
> "createobject = mysql" for some DB-backed loose object crap).
>
> 		Linus

More likely is "bigtable", I guess ;-)

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