On 02/21/2013 03:28 PM, Rich Pieri wrote: > On Thu, 21 Feb 2013 14:57:07 -0500 > Tom Metro <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Yes, at least as far back as NT 4.0 (I used them via 3rd party tools), >> but as far as I know they've never been supported by the Windows GUI, > Depends on what you mean by "supported". Both GUI and CLI APIs follow > hard links and junctions just fine. > > Explorer does not have a fuction for creating links and junctions which > is probably just as well. It would lead to inconsistent behavior > between NTFS and FAT file systems. > > In Windows 7, maybe Vista as well, there is a MKLINK command which is > the functional equivalent to the Unix ln command. > >> and I find it quite plausible that rsync doesn't support links on >> NTFS, even though it could. > rsync does support hard and soft links on NTFS when compiled with > Cygwin. I'm not sure about rsync compiled with MinGW; I don't use that. > > >> You get similar weird behavior if you try and use hard links on NTFS.) > That's due to sloppy programming in the application. > AFAIK the Windows mklink command creates a symbolic link not a hard link. This is a big difference.
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