Timeline for Why can't hard links reference files on other filesystems?
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| Sep 27, 2023 at 9:33 | comment | added | ctrl-alt-delor | @BenVoigt I improved clarity, in case anyone though that the alternative to a hard-link was a hard-link | |
| Sep 27, 2023 at 9:32 | history | edited | ctrl-alt-delor | CC BY-SA 4.0 | added 29 characters in body |
| Sep 19, 2023 at 21:17 | comment | added | Ben Voigt | @ctrl-alt-delor: NTFS Reparse Points (which include Junctions as a special case) are equivalent to Linux fstab and mount points. They are symbolic links in nature, not hard links. | |
| Sep 19, 2023 at 19:39 | comment | added | ctrl-alt-delor | I would think that the HURD operating system would also have this concept, and so their may me a fuse filesystem that has it. You would note even need a new file type as sym-links could be used with a special link format. | |
| Sep 17, 2023 at 19:27 | comment | added | ctrl-alt-delor | related superuser.com/questions/1532804/… | |
| Sep 17, 2023 at 19:22 | comment | added | ctrl-alt-delor | see ntfs junctions for the only implementation that I know of learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/fileio/… | |
| Sep 17, 2023 at 19:19 | comment | added | ctrl-alt-delor | I think devices have a UUID (so this part is solved). Sym-links can point to places than don't exist, so that is solved. We would just need to add a new file-type, and implement it in the VFS. | |
| Sep 17, 2023 at 19:16 | comment | added | Joshua | I tried to design a system that allowed it; and even solving the device identity problem it was problematic. The unsolvable problem is a hard link on a removable device that may or may not exist anymore. | |
| Sep 17, 2023 at 17:49 | comment | added | ctrl-alt-delor | @achhainsan How does computer A know the i-node numbers used by B, so that it can avoid them? | |
| Sep 17, 2023 at 17:47 | history | edited | ctrl-alt-delor | CC BY-SA 4.0 | added 9 characters in body |
| Sep 17, 2023 at 11:47 | comment | added | achhainsan | Could you elaborate your #notes on your question? | |
| Sep 17, 2023 at 11:02 | history | answered | ctrl-alt-delor | CC BY-SA 4.0 |