Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!sharkey!itivax!abaa!esker
From: esker@abaa.uucp (Lawrence Esker)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Links vs. aliases
Summary: Quick typo correction.  OOPS.
Message-ID: <2774@abaa.UUCP>
Date: 12 Sep 89 15:41:30 GMT
References: <19644@gryphon.COM> <1989Sep9.080227.14162@agate.uucp> <2771@abaa.UUCP>
Reply-To: esker@abaa.UUCP (Lawrence Esker)
Organization: Allen Bradley
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In article <2771@abaa.UUCP> esker@abaa.UUCP (Lawrence Esker) writes:
< [stuff]
<A hard link involves the disk controller to read an extra sector that points
<to the real file (or is this a soft link, I sometimes confuse them).  In any
<case, extra disk accesses are certainly going to take more time than links.
< [more stuff]

OOPS, the last line was supposed to say "... take more time than memory
resident table lookup."