On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 21:08:25 +0200, Miklos Szeredi wrote: > > There was a thread a few months ago where file-as-directory was > > discussed extensively, after Namesys implemented it. That's where the > > conversation on detachable mount points originated AFAIR. It will > > probably happen at some point. > > > > A nice implemention of it in FUSE could push it along a bit :) > > Aren't there some assumptions in VFS that currently make this > impossible?
I believe it's OK with VFS, but applications would be confused to death.
Well, there really is one issue -- dentries have exactly one parent, so
what do you do when opening a file with hardlinks as a directory? (In
fact IIRC that is what lead to all the funny talk about mountpoints,
since they don't have this limitation)
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