Re: tlug: Mounting my W95 partition

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <turnbull@example.com>]

>>>>> "Scott" == Scott H Perlman <perlman@example.com> writes:

    Scott> Just to be nitpicky.

    Scott> #mount
    Scott> /dev/hdb1 on /crap type ext2 (rw)
    Scott> /dev/hdb3 on /usr/local type ext2 (rw)
    Scott> #ls /crap
    Scott> file1.txt   file2.txt
    Scott> #ls -l crap
    Scott> -rw-r--r--   1 perlman  staff        1489 Feb 16 14:30 file1.txt
    Scott> lrwxrwxrwx   1 perlman  staff        1024 Feb 16 14:30 file2.txt -> 
    Scott> 	/usr/local/file2.txt

    Scott> But they won't actually both LIVE there.  (You could even
    Scott> hard link them if you were UID 0 and very masochistic)

If you define "masochistic" as "I don't care if the right file gets
dereferenced" I suppose so.  You probably can't do it with ln(1)
though.  According to link(2):

NOTES
       Hard links, as created by link, cannot  span  filesystems.
       Use symlink if this is required.

This is because a directory entry refers to an inode, and the inode
must be unique.  But that's not going to be true on different file
systems.

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