On 05/02/2011 02:40 PM, Al Viro wrote: > What happens to rename() with that thing? Specifically, what happens to > loop detection? Good point. Since my main interest was retrieving contents of a backup, I did not much consider the impact of write operations. Before the patch, the source files were exposed as normal files, and the target directories as normal directories, so one could easily have introduced loops with rename operations before. In line with the read-only support, I would suggest to conservatively prevent any rename where the source is a directory hardlink. I have prepared a patch along those lines, but I cannot test it right now. -- 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
