Re: hard links across snapshots/subvolumes are actually a bad idea.

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Hi David,

It's not that i disagree per se, but I'd appreciate if you would explain
this statement a little. Personally, I was hoping for cross-subvolumes
hardlinks, so I'd like to know why this hope was apparently a bad idea.

Kind regards,

Erik.


On 11/24/2010 11:07 PM, David Nicol wrote:
> I've been thinking about this for a while, from a perspective of how
> to make it work by allocating i-node numbers from a global pool, but
> yesterday I realized that offering the feature would be a bad idea
> because it violates the semantics of file systems.
> 
> I will be happy to expand on that point if anyone disagrees with it.
> 
> dln
> 

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