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Hard link support #8

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dsheets opened this issue Oct 3, 2015 · 1 comment
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Hard link support #8

dsheets opened this issue Oct 3, 2015 · 1 comment

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dsheets commented Oct 3, 2015

Some applications depend on file system support for hard links.

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I think hard links are a bad idea in the context of fscq. Hard links make the spec much more complicated (i.e., the file system state cannot be thought of purely as a tree). Worse yet, a spec that supports hard links makes it difficult to write certified applications on top of fscq, because the application cannot rely on a simple tree view of a file system (e.g., that two paths in the tree refer to distinct files, that changing one part of a tree doesn't change any other parts of a tree, etc). So, I doubt we'll add support for hard links.

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