Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!samsung!olivea!mintaka!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!paperboy!meissner From: meissner@osf.org (Michael Meissner) Newsgroups: comp.sys.m88k Subject: Re: Aviion control-point directories Message-ID: Date: 26 Mar 91 21:34:07 GMT References: <1991Mar25.171948.24629@appmag.com> Sender: news@OSF.ORG Organization: Open Software Foundation Lines: 21 In-reply-to: pa@appmag.com's message of 25 Mar 91 17:19:48 GMT In article <1991Mar25.171948.24629@appmag.com> pa@appmag.com (Pierre Asselin) writes: | DGUX has "control-point directories", i.e. directories with soft | limits on inodes and/or blocks in the subtree. | | Q1: how are the blocks counted if a file is hard-linked both inside | and outside of the subtree? If I remember correctly, a CPD acts like a partition, in that you can't have hard links between a file under a CPD, and outside of the CPD. | Q2: I assume they are specific to DG, (from the names of the system calls). | Can anyone confirm this? Yes. -- Michael Meissner email: meissner@osf.org phone: 617-621-8861 Open Software Foundation, 11 Cambridge Center, Cambridge, MA, 02142 Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?