On 2011-03-12 at 14:35:07 [+0100], Jonas Sundström<jonas@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Adrien Destugues<pulkomandy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Sat, 12 Mar 2011 13:40:56 +0100, "Jonas Sundström"<jonas@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Maybe hard links could work to give filesystem entries multiple real
locations with localized names. But if not created somewhat lazily
there would quite a lot of them. (How would it affect fs performance?)
BFS can't do hardlinks.
Yes, I know.
http://dev.haiku-os.org/wiki/FutureHaikuFileSystem
I think we won't allow directory hardlinks anyway. Most systems don't, since
it can lead to weird effects like cyclic directory structures.
Besides, I don't see the point of doing such a thing. I find the current
approach (the application being responsible for presenting the localized
name) fully sufficient. We might need to introduce additional API for
working with localized file names/paths, if there's demand for more
applications (e.g. using localized names in the shell).
