> > Yes. Roman, if you care about details about the files as directories > > look in the reiser4 threads as it did something quite similar. > > I was afraid this would come up. :) > I only need something much simpler, I don't need to create/move/unlink > anything, I only need a lookup+open. Doesn't matter. As long as filesystem has hard links and allows lookup on these, userspace can screw up the kernel. Badly. I did some work on this with auto-mounting/umounting directories on regular files. Hope to dig it up sometimes, but there are lots of nasty little details to worry about... Miklos -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html