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A symbolic link contains a text string that is automatically interpreted and followed by the operating system as a path to another file or directory. This other file or directory is called the "target". The symbolic link is a second file that exists independently of its target. If a symbolic link is deleted, its target remains unaffected.
Its hardlink sub-command can make hard links or list hard links associated with a file. [9] Another sub-command, reparsepoint, can query or delete reparse points, the file system objects that make up junction points, hard links, and symbolic links. [10] In addition, the following utilities can create NTFS links, even though they don't come with ...
Symbolic links: describes whether a system allows revision control of symbolic links as with regular files. Versioning symbolic links is considered by some people a feature and some people a security breach (e.g., a symbolic link to /etc/passwd). Symbolic links are only supported on select platforms, depending on the software.
File system Hard links Symbolic links Block journaling Metadata-only journaling Case-sensitive Case-preserving File Change Log XIP Resident files (inline data)
In computing, a hard link is a directory entry (in a directory-based file system) that associates a name with a file.Thus, each file must have at least one hard link. Creating additional hard links for a file makes the contents of that file accessible via additional paths (i.e., via different names or in different directori
Hard links were originally included to support the POSIX subsystem in Windows NT. [58] Although hard links use the same MFT record which records file metadata such as file size, modification date, and attributes, NTFS also caches this data in the directory entry as a performance enhancement. This means that when listing the contents of a ...
The java.nio.file package and its related package, java.nio.file.attribute, provide comprehensive support for file I/O and for accessing the file system. A zip file system provider is also available in JDK 7. The java.nio.file.LinkOption is an example of emulating extensible enums with interfaces. [6]
And while you can not use hard-links on directories, they are related to junctions, in effect hard-links for directories. 4.160.246.72 21:32, 5 July 2007 (UTC) [ reply ] This is not possible unless you allow filenames on one partition to point to data in another partition, which is a severe negligence (unless they are soft links).