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From: marquis@roble.com (Roger Marquis)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Ideal filesystem
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Date: 4 Apr 1996 01:50:33 GMT
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=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Kristian_K=F6hntopp?= (kris@schulung.netuse.de) wrote:
>Hard links are a directory only thing. A file
>always has one and only one inode. Get your Bach and read it
>again.

You mean hard links operate on files only.  You need soft links for
directories (yes, I just tried it).

Roger Marquis1