Rlinks: A mechanism for navigating to related files

• Student: Naveen Akarapu (2007).
• Purpose: Unix files are linked to other files by named links.
• Method: Add a filesystem type to Linux in which directory entries have a new field that points to a disk block containing rlink information.
• What the student learned
  1. Linux VFS layer.
  2. Ext2 directory structures.
  3. Kernel modification in the filesystem code.
  Code and documentation can be found at this site.