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Re: hardlinks on directories?
- From: Eric Blake <eblake at redhat dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com, framstag at rus dot uni-stuttgart dot de
- Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2020 12:26:26 -0600
- Subject: Re: hardlinks on directories?
- References: <20200130181516.GA29782@tik.uni-stuttgart.de>
On 1/30/20 12:15 PM, Ulli Horlacher wrote:
(I am a UNIX senior admin, but have VERY few knowledge on Windows)
UNIX does not support hard links on directories (in opposite to Windows?).
Windows does not either.
Are this directory hard links?
No, rather they are parallel mount points (the same directory mounted
under two different names).
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