AYAN TYAGI wrote: > > >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 . That'll do surprising things when the user _really_ makes a self-referencing symlink with "ln -s x x", which can happen unexpectedly, for example by untarring some archive. If a fallthrough is encoded that way, there should probably be an error when the user tries to make a self-referencing symlink. -- Jamie -- 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
