From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 8 7:15:36 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F0B9137B400 for ; Thu, 8 Aug 2002 07:15:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.thundernet.cz (mail.thundernet.cz [62.77.87.114]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BA65843E4A for ; Thu, 8 Aug 2002 07:15:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from neuhauser@bellavista.cz) Received: (qmail 15064 invoked from network); 8 Aug 2002 14:15:30 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO freepuppy.bellavista.cz) (62.168.44.50) by mail.thundernet.cz with SMTP; 8 Aug 2002 14:15:30 -0000 Received: by freepuppy.bellavista.cz (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 8EE114A8; Thu, 8 Aug 2002 16:15:23 +0200 (CEST) Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2002 16:15:23 +0200 From: Roman Neuhauser To: Jerry McAllister Cc: Greg 'groggy' Lehey , Peter Leftwich , Matthew Seaman , Jeff Jirsa , John Bleichert , FreeBSD LIST Subject: Re: Links (was: Is simplicity despised? WAS: Message-ID: <20020808141523.GT281@freepuppy.bellavista.cz> Mail-Followup-To: Jerry McAllister , Greg 'groggy' Lehey , Peter Leftwich , Matthew Seaman , Jeff Jirsa , John Bleichert , FreeBSD LIST References: <20020808004227.GY64642@wantadilla.lemis.com> <200208081409.g78E9WG14094@clunix.cl.msu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200208081409.g78E9WG14094@clunix.cl.msu.edu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > From: Jerry McAllister > Subject: Re: Links (was: Is simplicity despised? WAS: > To: grog@lemis.com (Greg 'groggy' Lehey) > Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2002 10:09:31 -0400 (EDT) > Cc: Hostmaster@Video2Video.Com (Peter Leftwich), > m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk (Matthew Seaman), > jeff@unixconsults.com (Jeff Jirsa), > syborg@stny.rr.com (John Bleichert), > FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.ORG (FreeBSD LIST) > > > > Sunuvva gun, that's cool - I wonder why they waste 85k of space > > > > They don't. You've overseen the first and third columns of that list. > > > > > instead of just having a symlink ;-) > > > > Because symlinks are wasteful and introduce problems. There are very > > few reasons to ever symlink files in the same file system. > > Because symlinks make it abundantly clear what is linked to what. > Hard links can lead to confusion. I suppose that's not a problem > For most of you though. But, for example, if a person doesn't know > which is linked to which, that person wouldn't know that more is > really less. They might think less is really more (if they discovered > it at all). No, less is not hardlinked to more, nor is more hardlinked to less. They're two names for the same file. So... Yes, you're right: less is really more. But at the same time, more is less. -- FreeBSD 4.6-STABLE 4:13PM up 1 day, 23:33, 11 users, load averages: 0.03, 0.01, 0.00 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message