> >Another idea that I first had when reading the suggestion was to use a > >symlink to self (ln -s x x) as the encoding for a fallthrough. It does > >not allow renames like what you really describe, but it has another advantage > >in that it does not require extensions to the upper file system layout > >while not conflicting with any use case I can see. It seems to be a great idea to make use of self referenced symlinks . Could you please describe the whole process u are proposing? If possible give some example and code . -- 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