[brlug-general] Two directories, one inode?

[Dustin Puryear]

Ah! Okay, cool.

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Adam Melancon wrote:
> Yep, one is in a filesystem for a virtual server created by virtfs
> http://www.prongs.org/virtfs/
> 
> On Jan 15, 2008 11:34 AM, -ray <ray at ops.selu.edu> wrote:
>> Do you have anything mounted with mount --bind?  We use it on our
>> mailservers so everyone has the same "filespace" but we can keep actual
>> directories on different filesystems:
>>
>> [root at coach ~]# ll -d -i /home/Students/Z/W0398506  /home/stu/09/Z/W0398506
>> 4358377 drwx-----x 3 W0398506 W0398506 4096 Dec 18 05:30 /home/stu/09/Z/W0398506
>> 4358377 drwx-----x 3 W0398506 W0398506 4096 Dec 18 05:30 /home/Students/Z/W0398506
>>
>> ray
>>
>>
>> On Tue, 15 Jan 2008, Dustin Puryear wrote:
>>
>>> Any ideas how this is possible?
>>>
>>> # ll -d -i /home/virtfs/abc/home/abc /home/abc
>>> 132759554 drwx--x--x  22 abc abc 2048 Jan 14 12:02 /home/abc
>>> 132759554 drwx--x--x  22 abc abc 2048 Jan 14 12:02 /home/virtfs/abc/home/abc
>>>
>>> I thought this was expressly forbidden/denied? How can two directories
>>> point to same inode? That is, how can you have a directory hardlink?
>>>
>>>
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