Re: hard links to files on other filesystems disallowed: why?

Robert Riches writes:
If you were to attempt that and were able to find some way to
refer to the other filesystem, what you're proposing would _BE_ a
symbolic/soft link.

No it wouldn't. A symlink is a file that contains a path in text form.

You could extend directory entries to include a filesystem identifier
(such as a UUID) as well as an inode but you'd have to standardize that
identifier over all the kinds of filesystems Linux can mount. Not
likely that Apple and Microsoft would cooperate. Besides, we already
have symlinks.

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John Hasler
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