Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: tla get --hard-links available

[Davide Libenzi]

On Fri, 3 Oct 2003, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:

> The archive is the real data, it sure doesn't need to know how fast we
> generated it and in turn it doesn't need to have the hardlink option
> inside it, like it doesn't have the mhz of my opteron stored inside.
>
> In the long run the kernel must start storing a bitflag in the on-disk
> format of the inode for the kernel level copy-on-write functionality.

It's funny. I was going to ask you to propose this feature together, but
then I thought that Al would have shot us :)



> For the short term fl-cow helps. BTW, I get segfaults with fl-cow in
> 64bit mode, I guess it's not 64bit clean, or 64bit glibc hasn't been
> tested well yet with LD_PRELOAD.

At load time or access time ? Any gdb dump ?



- Davide