Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2002 16:15:23 +0200 From: Roman Neuhauser <neuhauser@bellavista.cz> To: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu> Cc: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, Peter Leftwich <Hostmaster@Video2Video.Com>, Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk>, Jeff Jirsa <jeff@unixconsults.com>, John Bleichert <syborg@stny.rr.com>, FreeBSD LIST <FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Links (was: Is simplicity despised? WAS: Message-ID: <20020808141523.GT281@freepuppy.bellavista.cz> In-Reply-To: <200208081409.g78E9WG14094@clunix.cl.msu.edu> References: <20020808004227.GY64642@wantadilla.lemis.com> <200208081409.g78E9WG14094@clunix.cl.msu.edu>
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> From: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu>
> 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.
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