are links as useful...

Guy Harris guy at sun.uucp
Thu Nov 6 05:46:38 AEST 1986


> That may be, but I've rather have a symbolic link taking up a 1k block
> than make a copy of a 10M file.

That may be, but if you'd read Don Speck's original article carefully, you'd
have seen that he did NOT suggest doing away with symbolic links; he
suggested that they be implemented as a different kind of directory entry -
one containing two path names, presumably - rather than as a different kind
of inode.
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	Guy Harris
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