Thoughts on Multi-Symlink Concept

Andrew Duane aduane at juniper.net
Sun Feb 23 19:58:50 UTC 2014


Don't get me started.... I lived that nightmare for years as a kernel dev at DEC/Compaq. IIRC, It was designed specifically for the clustering, and was a great big hunk of duct tape splatted on the side of the code. A seem to recall a little spackle around the edges too....

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-----Original Message-----
From: owner-freebsd-hackers at freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-hackers at freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Adrian Chadd
Sent: Sunday, February 23, 2014 2:55 PM
To: Willem Jan Withagen
Cc: freebsd-filesystems at freebsd.org; Perry Hutchison; freebsd-hackers at freebsd.org; Daniel Eischen; gljennjohn at gmail.com; Jordan Hubbard
Subject: Re: Thoughts on Multi-Symlink Concept

I like how noone mentioned how variant symlinks existed in the DEC
UNIX on their alpha platforms. It made clustering stuff much more cute
to do.


-a
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