Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 6 Feb 1999 14:21:08 +0000 (GMT) | From | Riley Williams <> | Subject | Re: Hardlinks/SymLinks in the vfat filesystem? |
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Hi there.
>>>> 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.
>> Note that you can make an ext2-fs simlink that points to a file or >> directory on a mounted MS-DOS file system!
> Yeah but that's because you're creating in ext2 which is clueful > about such things. for vfat you'd have to create an evil > translator that takes .lnk files and translates them to symlinks > and vice versa. And it would have to do it transparently. And > then you'd have to wonder what windows would think of a .lnk > file that pointed to a partition it doesn't think exists. :)
> Sounds like fun to me. :)
You've assumed we regarded them as SymLinks there - if we regarded them as HardLinks, then they are limited to always referring to the partition they themselves are in, the same as all other hard links...
Best wishes from Riley.
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