cache_lookup() work this week.

Billy billy at isilon.com
Wed Sep 3 12:58:23 PDT 2003


On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 10:10:31PM -0700, Matthew Dillon wrote:
>     The fourth step will be a *BIG* Carrot... the namecache topology does
>     not have a problem with vnodes appearing in multiple places in the
>     filesystem.  This means that (A) it will be possible to hardlink
>     directories and 

  How do tree walking programs resolve cycles created by hardlinking
  directories.

  ie. ln /tmp /tmp/recurse; rm -rf /tmp/*

>     (B) it will be possible to implement semi-hard links,
>     basically softlinks that *look* like hardlinks and 

  Look like hardlinks to whom?

-billy





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