From: bothner@Xenon.Stanford.EDU (Per M. Bothner) Subject: Re: mtools question Date: Sun, 14 Jun 1992 02:57:50 GMT
In article <1992Jun12.205657.15661@bernina.ethz.ch> almesber@nessie.cs.id.ethz.ch (Werner Almesberger) writes:
>Hard links have the advantage that they only occupy an inode each while
>symbolic links additionally consume one disk block (1kB).
That is misleading, if not wrong. There is no (extra) inode for a
hard link, just an extra directory entry. Any number to links to
a file all use the same inode; they are just different names
(directory entries) for the same file. Each symbolic link
takes an extra inode (plus an extra disk block).
--Per Bothner
Cygnus Support bothner@cygnus.com bothner@neon.stanford.edu