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Re: [PATCH] pathconf and XFS/Reiserfs link count

From: Roland McGrath <roland at redhat dot com>
To: Andi Kleen <ak at suse dot de>
Cc: libc-hacker at sources dot redhat dot com
Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2002 17:12:46 -0700
Subject: Re: [PATCH] pathconf and XFS/Reiserfs link count

> How about moving the list to a file in /etc ? 

Someone would have to maintain that too.

> The current version doesn't even cover all file systems included in
> linux 2.4 that support hardlinks and for each new file system it'll need a 
> new patch too. And linux has plenty of new file systems in development.

I think the current situation is utterly disgusting.  The only thing that
makes any kind of sense to me is direct kernel support, and I can't fathom
why it wasn't done that way a long time ago.

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