cache_lookup() work this week.
Billy
billy at isilon.com
Fri Sep 5 13:51:35 PDT 2003
On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 10:09:53AM -0700, Matthew Dillon wrote:
> Yup. The issue with preventing cycles... and I think it is a good
> idea to prevent cycles... but the issue is that while you can prevent
> a cycle from occuring at the time you create the hard link, how do you
> prevent a cycle from occuring due to a later rename of some parent directory?
> Short of scanning the entire subhiearchy when renaming I see no way to
> detect the cycle.
>
Are we at some point going to incorporate background fsck. If so we could make fsck
work like a garbage collector and do some sort of mark and sweep check for cycles.
-billy
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