On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 10:41:14AM -0500, Nico Williams wrote: > On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 9:44 AM, Alan Coopersmith > <alan.coopersm...@oracle.com> wrote: > > On 06/26/12 05:46 AM, Lionel Cons wrote: > >> On 25 June 2012 11:33, <casper....@oracle.com> wrote: > >>> To be honest, I think we should also remove this from all other > >>> filesystems and I think ZFS was created this way because all modern > >>> filesystems do it that way. > >> > >> This may be wrong way to go if it breaks existing applications which > >> rely on this feature. It does break applications in our case. > > > > Existing applications rely on the ability to corrupt UFS filesystems? > > Sounds horrible. > > My guess is that the OP just wants unlink() of an empty directory to > be the same as rmdir() of the same. Or perhaps they want unlink() of > a non-empty directory to result in a recursive rm... But if they > really want hardlinks to directories, then yeah, that's horrible.
This all sounds like a good use for LD_PRELOAD and a tiny library that intercepts and modernizes system calls. -- -Gary Mills- -refurb- -Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada- _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
