Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2007 00:09:52 +0200 From: deeptech71@gmail.com To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: filesystem timestamps and their usage Message-ID: <46E9B530.4070107@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200709131503.l8DF3k8N039468@lurza.secnetix.de> References: <200709131503.l8DF3k8N039468@lurza.secnetix.de>
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Oliver Fromme wrote:
> All properties ("meta data") of a file are stored in
> the inode. That includes owner, permissions, flags,
> and all the time stamps, including the birth time.
> So if you have multiple
> entries (hard links) pointing to the same inode,
> they point to the same meta data. In other words,
> multiple hard links of the same inode cannot have
> different time stamps, permissions, owner etc.
OK.
> Hard links are not "virtual files". A hard link is a
> directory entry that points to an inode. There is
> nothing virtual about it.
Quotes often mean that some some sarcasm is added to the words enclosed.
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