Creating hardlinks for directories.

Vikram Goyal vikigoyal at gmail.com
Tue Jan 17 03:10:44 UTC 2006


On Sun, Jan 15, 2006 at 08:58:12AM -0700, Charles Curley wrote:
> 
> Also, because hard links may not cross file system boundaries,
> programs that use them may not be portable.
> 
> I learned a lot about the evils of hard linking directories while
> writing backup software. Believe me, you don't want to learn about
> those evils. Joseph Conrad could have written that story.
> 

Thanks, I think I have thought of a way out without hardlinking dirs.
That was an easy one out I jumped for.

There's still one option I believe:)

Regards!
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