[Pvfs2-developers] hardlink question

[Murali Vilayannur]

Hi John,
. and .. are not stored on the server. They are dynamically
instantiated (faked) for both the kernel module and user-space ls
utilities.
Keep in mind that we don't keep track of ref counts accurately for
performance reasons.
One of the few places where pvfs diverges from a posix compliant FS.
thanks,
Murali

On 1/29/07, John Marshall <John.Marshall at ec.gc.ca> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Since pvfs does not support hard links, can you explain
> how the . and .. directory entries are implemented?
>
> Thanks,
> John
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