Re: [PATCH v3] Add an option not to use link(src, dest) && unlink(src) when that is unreliable

> Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> writes:
> 
> > Maybe the config option shouldn't be a boolean, but a "how to instantiate 
> > objects". IOW, we could do
> >
> > 	[core]
> > 		createobject = {link|rename}
> >
> > instead. Maybe we some day could allow "inplace", for some totally broken 
> > system that supports neither renames nor links, and just wants the object 
> > to be created with the final name to start with.
> >
> > (Ok, that sounds unlikely, but I mention it because it's an example of the 
> > concept. Maybe somebody likes crazy databases, and would like to have a 
> > "createobject = mysql" for some DB-backed loose object crap).
> >
> > 		Linus
> 
> More likely is "bigtable", I guess ;-)