Re: [9fans] FS question

[Brantley Coile <brantley@prepaynt.com>]

On Mon, 10 Nov 2003 08:40:11 -0800, Rob Pike <rob@mightycheese.com> wrote:

>> I was just curious to the reasoning behind dropping links.
>> Did, for example, Ken's FS not do links because Plan 9 had
>> bind or did Plan 9 use bind because, possibly among other reasons,
>> FS didn't do any links.  Or was it just an accident of
>> design, a side affect of putting the file name in the meta data?
>
> links are bizarre, as rsc said.
>
> i don't really know the answer to your question; i think rsc may
> have actually done so.  when redesigning, you tend to throw
> away the stuff you don't want.
>
> also, think how links would work in plan 9. it's bad enough on
> unix, where you can't link from one file system to another, even
> on the same disk. with plan 9's malleable name spaces and files
> appearing from all over, links would work even more unpredictably.
>
> -rob
>
>


Just to be on record, I wasn't even remotely suggesting
we put links into Plan 9.  I like the way Plan 9 FS does it.

I was just trying to gain insight into how the FS got
to where it is.

 Brantley