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Re: hardlinks to directories impossible
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Jim Meyering |
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Re: hardlinks to directories impossible |
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Sat, 29 Dec 2001 12:56:35 +0100 |
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Jorrit Jorritsma <address@hidden> wrote:
> It seems impossible to create hardlinks to directories with fileutils
> 4.1 not even when I'm root.
> I'm running RedHat 7.2 x86 and I only tried the fileutils provided
> with the distribution.
The ln program just calls `link' (assuming you use -d and do it as root).
If that doesn't work, then it's a lower-level layer that doesn't permit it.
> You might wonder why I would like to make hardlinks to directories.
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> That way it's possible to serve different configured diskless clients
> with partly the same files.