two questions

[Monty J. Harder]

"DCT Jared Smith" <jared at dctkc.com> wrote:

> >I've advocated for some time expanding the idea of the symbolic link to
> >include 'bidirectional' links.  These would embed information in both the
> >'source' and 'destination' directory about the link, combining the
> >advantages of both kinds of links.
>
> Excellent idea; surely someone is implementing it somewhere?

  Not that I know of.  I've kicked around some ideas on a filesystem in
which all links are bidirectional, and part of the metadata for an inode
would be a list of the directory entries that own it, but never got around
to writing any code.