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Subject: Re: filesystem timestamps and their usage
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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.