Date: Mon, 15 Mar 1999 10:37:15 -0700 From: Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@execmail.com> To: robert+freebsd@cyrus.watson.org Cc: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ACL's Message-ID: <199903151737.KAA23858@rembrandt.esys.ca> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990314121837.5121C-100000@fledge.watson.org>
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> I think hard links are neat, et al, but I really don't think they add any > new useful functionality above symlinks, and they can certainly introduce > new problems. They save a little disk space here and there (as long as > you don't recursive move anything)... I beg to differ. Our mailstore product uses hard links extensively to reduce disk usage when a message is delivered to multiple recipients. In a corporate environment where someone mails a 50MB MIME message to 100 recipients, the ability to hardlink 99 of those copies makes a *big* difference. Hard links are a very powerful tool that can trip you up if used incorrectly. Just like most things in UNIX can be misused. --lyndon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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