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From: guy@sun.uucp (Guy Harris)
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Subject: Re: are links as useful...
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Date: Wed, 5-Nov-86 14:46:38 EST
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> 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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