On Tue, 2001-12-11 at 14:08, Quang Nguyen (Ngo) wrote:
> Is XFS going to support hard links to directories?
>
> # ln -d dir dirLink
>
> returns
>
> ln: creating hard link `../dirLink' to `dir': Operation not permitted
Generally you do not want to do this, you can create loops and all
sorts of nasty things with hardlinks to directories. The man page for
link even explicitly lists an error for this:
EPERM oldpath is a directory.
You also have to ask yourself, if there are two hardlinks to a
directory, which directory is its parent.
You can create soft links to directories though.
Steve
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