Hi,
On 6 Dec 2008, at 06:47, Al Viro wrote:
You know what... I thought that HFS+ did not support links; looking
at
the source, it appears that hardlinks *are* supported and that brings
all the deadlocks into the game, same as we had in reiser4 case.
Which is to say, this stuff *must* go. In case of HFS it's obnoxious,
but not immediately letal. In case of HFS+ it's an instant DoS.
At least on OS X 10.5 (Leopard) HFS+ not only supports hard links but
also supports hard links on directories (though they are read-only)!
btw. That is how time machine works (the built in backup tool that
backs up to a HFS+ file system and then each hour it creates a new
directory tree by doing hard links to the previous one including the
directories but the backups are read-only).
Supporting that on Linux as it is today is likely to be impossible
without major work which no-one is prepared to do / accept...
Best regards,
Anton
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Unix Support, Computing Service, University of Cambridge, CB2 3QH, UK
Linux NTFS maintainer, http://www.linux-ntfs.org/
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