On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 6:57 PM, Squall Lionheart <headmastersquall@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Tom is right. You're thinking of *hard* links, which I think don't >> work for directories anyway (though I saw some discussion about >> changing that). >> > > You are correct. Hard links must link to another item within the current > partition/volume and cannot cross over, however soft/symbolic links can. > Last time I checked, Apple's file system is the only one that can Hard Link > a directory. (...but cannot hardlink files in a sane way.) ext4 supports hardlinked directories, can be done using `debugfs` – Linux just disallows that in link() currently. -- Mantas Mikulėnas
