Hard links broken?

[Randall R Schulz]

Nicolas,

Whoa! You're jumping to conclusions. False conclusions.

Cygwin has always fallen back on a copy when a hard link was impossible.

All is as it was.

Randall Schulz


At 20:13 2002-12-29, Nicolas Williams wrote:
>On Sun, Dec 29, 2002 at 10:32:40AM -0800, Randall R Schulz wrote:
> > Nicolas,
> >
> > You've got something else going on. I, too, am running Cygwin 1.3.17
> > ('cause of my other problems with 1.3.18) and hard links work fine for me.
>
>I see that 1.3.18 just came out.
>
> > I assume you are using an NTFS file system, right? FAT file systems don't
> > support hard links.
>
>Yes, NTFS, on XP.  Er, no!  That's the problem!  I'd never bothered
>checking (it's a single user laptop, used mostly for mutt/vim [and
>Cygwin])), but the c: drive is FAT32 while the d: drive is NTFS (the
>install disks give no partitioning or filesystem options either - it's
>40%/60% FAT32/NTFS fot c:/d: - geez).
>
>So, Cygwin must have been emulating hardlinks on FAT32 and that support
>must now be gone.  Geez.
>
>Thanks, that about clears it up.
>
> > I have noticed that Cygwin's link code falls back to copying for more
> > reasons than just lack of support for hard links in the underlying file
> > system. If I knew more about what variety of failures in attempting to
> > create a hard link will cause Cygwin to fall back to copying the file, I'd
> > tell you, but I just remember seeing other things do it.
>
>Hmmm, I guess I could dig into the code... if I hadn't just figured it
>out (see below).
>
> > What are the ownership and permissions of the directory in which the files
> > involved reside? How do they relate to the user (id) making the attempt?
>
>CACLS complained that it works only on NTFS - that was the giveaway,
>thanks.  Hard links work just fine on the NTFS partition.  Time to
>convert c: to NTFS.
>
> > Randall Schulz
> >
> > P.S. Nicolas, please subscribe to the list, at least for as long it takes
> > to get this issue resolved.
>
>No need anymore, thanks.
>
>Cheers,
>
>Nico


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