From: teffta@cs690-3.erie.ge.com (Andrew R. Tefft) Subject: links (was Re: anonymous ftp 0.99pl1) Date: Wed, 1 Sep 1993 23:12:51 GMT
In article <CCMK3s.9Au@news.iastate.edu> jdh@iastate.edu (Jon Hamilton) writes:
>Long before there were (evil) symbolic links, there were hard links.
>I don't understand the fascination that people in the c.o.l.* groups
>have with symlinks, but this is a good example of When Not To Use Them(TM).
1) symlinks are easy to spot at a glance in file listings. hard links
are indistinguishable from identical copies of a file unless you have
an excellent memory for inode numbers and use the -i option to ls.
2) not all of us only have one filesystem.
Both symlinks and hard links have their place. Given the choice
I almost always choose symlinks for reason #1. I take it you choose
hard links. Why the prejudice?