[Info-vax] Re; Spiralog, RMS Journaling (was Re: FREESPADRIFT)

[lawrencedo99 at gmail.com]

On Thursday, June 23, 2016 at 10:27:12 PM UTC+12, Johnny Billquist wrote:
> On 2016-06-22 09:27, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:
>> On Wednesday, June 22, 2016 at 3:30:03 AM UTC+12, Johnny Billquist wrote:
>>>
>>> Multiple hard links are not a problem for file system integrity.
>>
>> Yes they are.
> 
> No, they are not. Like I said, you actually have hard links for 
> directories all over the place already, you just don't realize it.

Further to your ingenious riposte regarding “.” and “..”, could you explain, given a directory which is a child of multiple parent directories, where you think “..” in that directory should point to?

>> Consider either (or both) of the following questions:
>>
> > * How do you prevent reference cycles?
> 
> What is the problem with that? You already get those if you just follow 
> symlinks blindly as well.

You don’t understand the difference between hard links and symlinks?

>> * What happens if you don’t?
> 
> Nothing interesting.

Would you like to rethink that?