11 Jul
2012
11 Jul
'12
4:44 p.m.
On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 6:57 PM, Squall Lionheart <headmastersquall@gmail.com> wrote:
Tom is right. You're thinking of *hard* links, which I think don't work for directories anyway (though I saw some discussion about changing that).
You are correct. Hard links must link to another item within the current partition/volume and cannot cross over, however soft/symbolic links can. Last time I checked, Apple's file system is the only one that can Hard Link a directory.
(...but cannot hardlink files in a sane way.) ext4 supports hardlinked directories, can be done using `debugfs` – Linux just disallows that in link() currently. -- Mantas Mikulėnas