Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2002 10:09:31 -0400 (EDT) From: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu> To: grog@lemis.com (Greg 'groggy' Lehey) 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) Subject: Re: Links (was: Is simplicity despised? WAS: Message-ID: <200208081409.g78E9WG14094@clunix.cl.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <20020808004227.GY64642@wantadilla.lemis.com> from "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" at Aug 08, 2002 10:12:27 AM
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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
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