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Re: [RFC PATCH 0/5] Shadow directories

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From: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...>
To: David Newall <david@...>
Cc: <jaroslav.sykora@...>, <linux-kernel@...>, <linux-fsdevel@...>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/5] Shadow directories
Date: Thursday, October 18, 2007 - 4:09 pm

But hell will break lose if you allow hardlinking directories.


mkdir /tmp/a

ln /tmp/a /tmp/a/b


And you would not be able to rmdir /tmp/a/b because the directory is

not empty (it contains "b" [full path: /tmp/a/b/b]).

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