Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2007 00:09:52 +0200 From: deeptech71@gmail.com To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: filesystem timestamps and their usage Message-ID: <46E9B530.4070107@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200709131503.l8DF3k8N039468@lurza.secnetix.de> References: <200709131503.l8DF3k8N039468@lurza.secnetix.de>
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Oliver Fromme wrote: > All properties ("meta data") of a file are stored in > the inode. That includes owner, permissions, flags, > and all the time stamps, including the birth time. > So if you have multiple > entries (hard links) pointing to the same inode, > they point to the same meta data. In other words, > multiple hard links of the same inode cannot have > different time stamps, permissions, owner etc. OK. > Hard links are not "virtual files". A hard link is a > directory entry that points to an inode. There is > nothing virtual about it. Quotes often mean that some some sarcasm is added to the words enclosed.
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