This is an old article. Mount --bind solves the directory hard-linking problem f...

aidenn0 on March 6, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: GCFS: a Garbage-Collected Filesystem for Linux

This is an old article. Mount --bind solves the directory hard-linking problem for root, and there is no compelling reason to allow users to hardlink directories.

Also, making a file-system not a tree adds a lot of complexity for questionable gains.