Re: [cobalt-users] Re: Default FTP login on RaQ2/3

[Jeff Lasman <jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Paul Schreiber wrote:

> As has been already stated, a symbolic link is a file that points to a
> file's location; delete the original and your link is useless. This is
> similar to a Macintosh "alias." (A windows 95 shortcut is much weaker.)
> 
> Each file in your unix filesystem is represented by an i-node. This is
> part of the directory structure. When you create a file, you are creating
> an i-node and a hard link from the i-node to the file inside a directory
> somewhere (say /home/foo). When you create a hard link using ln (say
> /home/bar/lalala), you are creating a second hard link to the i-node. You
> aren't creating a second file. Basically, the file is in two places at
> once.

That's sounds so similar, it's no wonder I can't understand it well
enough to explain it <smile>.

Jeff
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