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Windows 7 and Vista support a maximum of 31 reparse points (and therefore symbolic links) for a given path (i.e. any given path can have at most 31 indirections before Windows gives up). [18] Only users with the new Create Symbolic Link privilege, which only administrators have by default, can create symbolic links. [ 19 ]
Windows Command Prompt: Starting with Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008, the mklink internal command can create junctions, hard links, and symbolic links. [6] This command is also available in ReactOS . [ 7 ]
Symbolic links (or soft links) were introduced in Windows Vista. [10] Symbolic links are resolved on the client side. So when a symbolic link is shared, the target is subject to the access restrictions on the client, and not the server. [citation needed]
For example, Windows Vista implemented NTFS symbolic links, Transactional NTFS, partition shrinking, and self-healing. [24] NTFS symbolic links are a new feature in the file system; all the others are new operating system features that make use of NTFS features already in place.
The mounted volume is not limited to the NTFS filesystem but can be formatted with any file system supported by Microsoft Windows. However, though these are similar to POSIX mount points found in Unix and Unix-like systems, they only support local filesystems; on Windows Vista and later versions of Windows, NTFS symbolic links can be used to ...
A "reparse point" is essentially a symbolic link or directory junction. As such, Windows 7 and Vista are limited to a chain of 31 symbolic links or junctions. I believe the above quotation should be replaced with the following line: Windows 7 and Vista support a maximum of 31 reparse points (and therefore symbolic links) for a given path.
Under Windows 7 and later, the following user folders may be redirected: AppData/Roaming, Contacts, Desktop, Downloads, Favorites, Links, Music, Documents, Pictures, Saved Games, Searches, Start Menu, and Videos. [6] The equivalent functionality is achieved in Unix-like systems by using mount or ln and a NFS or CIF.
The ln command is a standard Unix command utility used to create a hard link or a symbolic link (symlink) to an existing file or directory. [1] The use of a hard link allows multiple filenames to be associated with the same file since a hard link points to the inode of a given file, the data of which is stored on disk.