From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 8 7: 9:58 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 85DBC37B400 for ; Thu, 8 Aug 2002 07:09:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from clunix.cl.msu.edu (clunix.cl.msu.edu [35.9.2.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF51D43E5E for ; Thu, 8 Aug 2002 07:09:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu) Received: (from jerrymc@localhost) by clunix.cl.msu.edu (8.11.6+Sun/8.11.6) id g78E9WG14094; Thu, 8 Aug 2002 10:09:32 -0400 (EDT) From: Jerry McAllister Message-Id: <200208081409.g78E9WG14094@clunix.cl.msu.edu> Subject: Re: Links (was: Is simplicity despised? WAS: To: grog@lemis.com (Greg 'groggy' Lehey) Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2002 10:09:31 -0400 (EDT) Cc: Hostmaster@Video2Video.Com (Peter Leftwich), m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk (Matthew Seaman), jeff@unixconsults.com (Jeff Jirsa), syborg@stny.rr.com (John Bleichert), FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.ORG (FreeBSD LIST) In-Reply-To: <20020808004227.GY64642@wantadilla.lemis.com> from "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" at Aug 08, 2002 10:12:27 AM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, > ... much cut > > > > Sunuvva gun, that's cool - I wonder why they waste 85k of space > > They don't. You've overseen the first and third columns of that list. > > > instead of just having a symlink ;-) > > Because symlinks are wasteful and introduce problems. There are very > few reasons to ever symlink files in the same file system. Because symlinks make it abundantly clear what is linked to what. Hard links can lead to confusion. I suppose that's not a problem For most of you though. But, for example, if a person doesn't know which is linked to which, that person wouldn't know that more is really less. They might think less is really more (if they discovered it at all). And really, symlinks are not so unbearably wasteful unless you are running some very intensive applications. ////jerry > > Greg > -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message