HAMMER2 design in progress - 1-2 year time frame

[Steve O'Hara-Smith]

On Wed, 15 Jun 2011 12:53:07 -0500 (CDT)
"Jeremy C. Reed" <reed at reedmedia.net> wrote:

> On Wed, 11 May 2011, Matthew Dillon wrote:
> 
> >     In addition, HAMMER2 is going to have two serious restrictions
> > relative to other filesystems.  (1) HAMMER2 will not support
> > hardlinks.   And
> >     (2) HAMMER2 has no physical way to resolve '..' and will depend on
> > the operating system's namecache to handle '..' (which DragonFly's
> > will).
> 
> Will DragonFly suggest using other filesystem for / or what will you do 
> about many third party software that use link(2)?

	I presume UFS will continue to be supported.

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