On 02/21/2013 04:00 PM, Jerry Feldman wrote: > 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. > I stand corrected. mklink creates a symbolic link by default, but can create a hard link using the /h option.
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