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From: mangler@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu (System Mangler)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Symbolic Links
Message-ID: <4028@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu>
Date: Sat, 19-Sep-87 03:34:40 EDT
Article-I.D.: cit-vax.4028
Posted: Sat Sep 19 03:34:40 1987
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References: <8731@brl-adm.ARPA> <2789@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com> <1781@munnari.oz> <4477@ncoast.UUCP>
Organization: California Institute of Technology
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Summary: (device, inode) pairs

In article <4477@ncoast.UUCP>, allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery) writes:
> (1) Generic links.  These would be special files containing, not pathnames,
>     but (device, inode) pairs.

Putting device numbers into a zillion special files makes it exceedingly
painful to move a filesystem to a different device, and isn't likely to
work at all for a network filesystem.  Ditto for inode numbers.

Don Speck   speck@vlsi.caltech.edu  {amdahl,rutgers}!cit-vax!speck