On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 08:33:00PM +0100, Falk Hueffner wrote: > Jeroen van Wolffelaar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Also, eh, I'm not convinced lintian is correct here in complaining, > > I'm a bit unsure. Lintian has warned for any hardlinks for a long time, > > but is it really bad to have them? Having them across different > > directories might cause problems when the user has those on different > > filesystems, but in the same directory? Opinions? > > Some file systems don't support hardlinks, such as AFS, which causes > a lot of trouble if you want to mount a Debian system via AFS.
%mount ... AFS on /afs type afs (rw) %pwd /afs/umich.edu/user/b/f/bfields %touch TMP %ln TMP TMP2 %ls -li TMP* 1788936372 -rw-r--r-- 2 bfields user 0 Jan 14 14:54 TMP 1788936372 -rw-r--r-- 2 bfields user 0 Jan 14 14:54 TMP2 It's just cross-directory hardlinks that AFS doesn't like: %mkdir TMP3 %ln TMP TMP3/FOO ln: creating hard link `TMP3/FOO' to `TMP': Invalid cross-device link --Bruce Fields -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
