On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 12:49:30PM -0500, Balint, Jess wrote: > Allen, > > The reason that you cannot create a hard link on a remote file system is > because it has to be done of the system that the fs is local. That is why > you can login to the box, then create the link and logout and it shows > remotely. I think it is taken care of somewhere in the vfs layer. You CAN make hardlinks on NFS mounted volumes. These surely are NOT local. So no, VFS really does not care about it. VFS does not make a difference between filesystems. > jess > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Allen Curtis [mailto:acurtis@onz.com] > > Sent: Wednesday, February 26, 2003 10:09 AM > > To: Newbies > > Subject: Hard links and Auto Mounting > > > > > > I was wondering if someone could explain this too me. > > > > What is the difference when trying to create hard links on a > > local drive vs. > > a remote auto mounted drive? In either case the links are > > being made to > > files on the same physical disk. However you cant actually > > create hard links > > unless it is recognized as a local drive. e.g. If you ssh > > into the remote > > machine, create the links, then exit, everything is fine. > > > > TIA > -- > Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. > Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ > FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/ > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jan 'Bulb' Hudec <bulb@ucw.cz> -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
