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Date:      Tue, 21 Mar 1995 02:06:42 -0800
From:      David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM>
To:        "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@estienne.CS.Berkeley.EDU>
Cc:        Steven Wallace <swallace@ece.uci.edu>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: sym links 
Message-ID:  <199503211006.CAA01619@corbin.Root.COM>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 21 Mar 95 01:43:18 PST." <199503210943.BAA07270@estienne.cs.berkeley.edu> 

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>>>symbolic links are stored entirely in the directory entry and thus 
>>>carry the same time stamp info as the directory.
>>
>>   Well, that's how POSIX would have it...but in FFS they are stored in the
>>inode if short and in a regular disk block if long. They're only made to
>>appear like they have no inode associated with them. I wouldn't object if we
>>went back to the old way of doing this - with symlinks having an inode. The
>>problem of a regular user not being able to delete a symlink he created in
>>/tmp is one of the many problems with the way we have it now.
>>
>>-DG
>
>What's the speed penalty for going back to 4.3 behavior?

   None that I know of; the inode information is already available...unless
you're refering to the human time to change the code back. :-)

-DG



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