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  From: Richard Sharpe <sharpe@ns.aus.com>
  To  : Richard Russell <richardrussell@internode.on.net>
  Date: Mon, 02 Jul 2001 23:10:43 +0930

Re: Basic NFS Question

Richard Russell wrote:

>> Is it possible to symbolic link to an NFS mounted directory?
> 
> 
> surely trying this would be trivial, David... (unless you have no NFS
> mounted directories)...

Indeed ... :-)

 
> ABAS (a bit about symlinks): they are just textual references to other files
> on the filesystem. Hard links are not, hence you couldn't do that with
> hardlinks.

More specifically, the link call refuses to link to a directory. 
Symlinks were born as a way to link across file systems (since hard 
links use the inode number, they are, perforce, constrained to linking 
objects on the same file system) and to link to directories.

Regards
-------
Richard Sharpe, rsharpe@ns.aus.com, LPIC1
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