Re: directory hardlinks

[Michal Jaegermann <michal ellpspace math ualberta ca>]

On Mon, Oct 01, 2001 at 05:00:43PM +0300, Jukka Iso-Heiniemi wrote:
> 
>   Actually my problem was/is to create system where is possible
>   to change content (==subdirs) of NFS export directory very
>   quickly without moving data around. I studied to possibility
>   to mount loopback-devices

This sounds like a "natural" approach to the problem although,
IIRC, there were some bugs and also fixes with loopback over NFS.
I may be mistaken, though.

In any case you will likely get much better informed answers if you
will discuss that problem on "NFS on Linux" specific list.  You can
find out details about this list, including how to subscribe and
where are archives,  by visiting

    http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nfs

>   NFS export directory, but mount point limit is only 255 and
>   it is definitely too low; so if I can raise that limit it
>   could solve the problem.

See above.

By hacking hard links for directories you likely end up one day with a
totally messed up file system which includes directory loops.  Great
fun!

  Michal