From: torvalds@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Linus Benedict Torvalds) Subject: Re: mtools question Date: 15 Jun 1992 10:52:10 GMT
In article <1992Jun14.225856.27315@unixland.natick.ma.us> bill@unixland.natick.ma.us (Bill Heiser) writes:
>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).
>
>Is this meant to imply that LINUX has symbolic links?
Indeed. Has had them since 0.12 I do believe. I think the original
0.12 didn't allow symlinks that contained other symlinks as part of
them, but later versions have had a loop count of five, which is quite
enough for everything I have yet seen.
Linus