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From: dave@murphy.UUCP (H. Munster)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re: are links as useful...
Message-ID: <145@houligan.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 31-Oct-86 18:02:50 EST
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Posted: Fri Oct 31 18:02:50 1986
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Organization: Gould Electronics, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida.
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Summary: around here, symlinks save a lot of disk space
Line eater: yep

In article <1059@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu>, mangler@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu 
  (System Mangler) types:

>Symbolic links are too expensive to use freely.  They take up
>an inode and 1K of disk space, just to hold a few characters.
>They carry all the baggage of a regular inode (atime, mtime,
>links, owner, group, mode) but you can't make proper use of
>any of it.

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