From: Nicholas Miell <nmiell@attbi.com>
To: Thunder from the hill <thunder@ngforever.de>
Cc: Diego Calleja <diegocg@teleline.es>,
phillips@bonn-fries.net, adelton@informatics.muni.cz,
christoph@lameter.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
adelton@fi.muni.cz
Subject: Re: vfat patch for shortcut display as symlinks for 2.4.18
Date: 09 Jun 2002 14:30:45 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1023658246.1659.4.camel@entropy> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0206091438280.8715-100000@hawkeye.luckynet.adm>
On Sun, 2002-06-09 at 13:40, Thunder from the hill wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Sun, 9 Jun 2002, Diego Calleja wrote:
> > I agree. M$ did .lnk _files_, but really, there's not symlinks in vfat
> > world. Even msdos doesn't recognize them. I don't remember if it's the
> > same in NTFS, W2000 & XP are so good that I can't work with them in 32MB
> > RAM...
>
> Some time ago I found a document proposing a different API for Windows
> 2002 which was supposed to include symlinks into ntfs, so I don't think
> it was there.
>
NTFS is a real filesystem, unlike VFAT. It has native support for hard
links, and, IIRC, the version that ships with Windows XP can do
something similar to symbolic links.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-06-09 21:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 53+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-06-09 1:53 vfat patch for shortcut display as symlinks for 2.4.18 christoph
2002-06-09 16:44 ` Jan Pazdziora
2002-06-09 17:44 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-06-09 18:53 ` Nicholas Miell
2002-06-09 20:05 ` Diego Calleja
2002-06-09 20:40 ` Thunder from the hill
2002-06-09 21:30 ` Nicholas Miell [this message]
2002-06-09 20:53 ` Albert D. Cahalan
2002-06-09 21:36 ` Nicholas Miell
2002-06-09 22:05 ` Albert D. Cahalan
2002-06-09 23:45 ` Nicholas Miell
2002-06-10 1:01 ` Albert D. Cahalan
2002-06-10 1:47 ` Nicholas Miell
2002-06-10 1:58 ` Albert D. Cahalan
2002-06-10 2:06 ` Nicholas Miell
2002-06-10 2:20 ` christoph
2002-06-09 22:06 ` christoph
2002-06-09 22:30 ` Nicholas Miell
2002-06-09 22:49 ` Thunder from the hill
2002-06-09 23:03 ` Nicholas Miell
2002-06-10 0:04 ` christoph
2002-06-10 0:01 ` christoph
2002-06-10 7:42 ` Joseph Mathewson
2002-06-10 10:23 ` Jan Pazdziora
2002-06-10 14:03 ` Thunder from the hill
2002-06-10 16:08 ` christoph
2002-06-11 9:47 ` Banka
2002-06-11 4:43 ` christoph
2002-06-10 11:00 ` Jan Pazdziora
2002-06-09 22:02 ` christoph
2002-06-10 11:06 ` Jan Pazdziora
[not found] ` <200206091158.43293.bodnar42@phalynx.dhs.org>
[not found] ` <E17H8wh-0003ZO-00@starship>
2002-06-09 20:24 ` Ryan Cumming
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-06-11 14:31 Francois Gouget
2002-06-12 0:30 ` Albert D. Cahalan
2002-06-13 1:30 ` Francois Gouget
2002-06-13 1:50 ` Kurt Wall
2002-06-13 2:00 ` Alexander Viro
2002-06-13 2:25 ` Kurt Wall
2002-06-13 2:42 ` Ryan Cumming
2002-06-13 2:57 ` Kurt Wall
2002-06-13 3:04 ` Francois Gouget
2002-06-13 3:31 ` Alexander Viro
2002-06-13 2:05 ` Stevie O
2002-06-13 3:31 ` Francois Gouget
2002-06-13 4:09 ` Alexander Viro
2002-06-13 4:00 ` Tomas Szepe
[not found] ` <20020613103532.375d5dfe.arodland@noln.com>
2002-06-13 17:21 ` Tomas Szepe
[not found] <Pine.GSO.4.21.0206130008390.18281-100000@weyl.math.psu.edu >
2002-06-13 4:27 ` Stevie O
2002-06-13 5:16 ` Alexander Viro
2002-06-13 7:00 ` Francois Gouget
2002-06-13 9:18 ` Alexander Viro
[not found] <Pine.GSO.4.21.0206130454040.18281-100000@weyl.math.psu.edu >
2002-06-13 23:54 ` Stevie O
2002-06-14 0:37 ` Alexander Viro
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