Re: [ILUG] How to copy some files

From: Ronan Waide (waider at domain waider.ie)
Date: Sun 21 Jul 2002 - 01:54:19 IST


On July 21, paul at domain clubi.ie said:
>
> reiser's handles to files are hashes i believe. fat: dont think you
> can make symlinks on it.

You can't; hard links only. And those get cleaned up by ScanDisk as
"cross-linked files". Shortcuts are the Windows analogue of symlinks,
and they don't work outside the Windows environment - i.e. they're an
artifact of the OS rather than the FS.

Cheers.
Waider.

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