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Slightly different suggestion

Posted Sep 2, 2004 16:39 UTC (Thu) by Ross (subscriber, #4065)
In reply to: Why not just not support hard links? by walles
Parent article: More notes on reiser4

How about this?

rule 1: you can't create hard links to a file with streams
rule 2: you can't create streams in a file with more than one directory entry (link)

Problem solved. You get both features on a per-file basis. You just can't
use them both at the same time.

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Slightly different suggestion

Posted Sep 2, 2004 18:34 UTC (Thu) by bronson (subscriber, #4806) [Link]

As streams become more and more popular, your proposed solution becomes more and more problematic. Besides, I think that in reiser4 all files have streams.