>> I was a bit confused that symlinks don't seem to work, but I had no >> problem in using hard links. > > Really? That's odd, because I've done this sort of thing with symlinks > myself. Is it a problem generating the links or getting mencoder to use > them? It was no problem to generate the links, but mencoder didn't seem to see them as files. I had not thousands of links, there were several pictures, some 50 or so links each, with real jpeg files in between. > Using hard links is potentially problematic because the number of links > to a single file is limited due to the size of the link count field in > an inode (16 bits in EXT2,3,4). Oh, 16 bit would mean 65000 links is the maximum...? No problem for me then as I try not to have more than 10000 or so files per directory. Most file systems get terribly slow with more files. > >> Question to the experts: How can symlinks be used? > > Not an MPlayer expert, but I know a bit about Linux. Thanks :-) Greets, Kiste
