lkml.org 
[lkml]   [1999]   [Feb]   [4]   [last100]   RSS Feed
Views: [wrap][no wrap]   [headers]  [forward] 
 
Messages in this thread
/
Date
From
SubjectRE: Hardlinks/SymLinks in the vfat filesystem?
Hi Jeremy.

>> Can I ask whether Hardlinks or SymLinks are supposed to work in
>> the vfat file system?

> No. Vfat doesn't have any notion remotely related to symlinks or
> hard links.

>> My own thoughts is that one or the other of these are pretty much
>> identical to what Win9x calls "shortcuts", and those are clearly
>> supported, so we should be able to use whatever mechanism that
>> uses to support them as well. However, I'm probably well off beam
>> here...

> Actually "shortcuts" are very different from symlinks. For a
> start, the Windows filesystem doesn't parse or understand them:
> they are only interpreted by Explorer. They're also a lot more
> general than symlinks, since they also contain command line
> args, urls, and so on. There's no good or close semantic match
> between symlinks and shortcuts which means its a bad idea to
> treat them as if there were.

Ah...my misunderstanding then - thanks for clearing that up...

Best wishes from Riley.

---
* ftp://ftp.MemAlpha.cx/pub/rhw/Linux
* http://www.MemAlpha.cx/~rhw/kernel.versions.html


-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

\
 
 \ /
  Last update: 2005-03-22 13:50    [W:0.075 / U:0.716 seconds]
©2003-2020 Jasper Spaans|hosted at Digital Ocean and TransIP|Read the blog|Advertise on this site