> > What about disabling hard links at the filesystem level for specific
> > filesystems. Perhaps this could be an option in the ext2 and other fs
> > code. Perhaps not a kernel issue, necessarily.
>
> bzzzzt. how are you renaming a file without being able to create a hard
> link ? there are lots of operations which need hard links (e.g. file
> locking).
For example, this is the reason that rcs breaks on ncpfs filesystems (at
least with early 2.0 kernels).
I certainly don't want a home directory where I can't use rcs.
MfG Kai