On Thu, 28 Mar 1996, James M Mosley wrote:
AFS only supports hard links within the same directory. So I don't really
see any way around this unless you were to somehow manage to make them
symbolic links instead. I'm curious - which package are you installing?
>
Hello, >
> I am trying to install software on an AFS volume using SUN's pkgadd
> utility. The problem is that some of the files are hard links. As long as the
> links are to files in the same directory, everyting is fine. But if the link is
> to a file in another directory (on the same volume) the link fails as follows:
>
> cd /vol1 (mount point for a volume)
> touch file1
> mkdir tmp
> cd tmp
> ln ../file1 file2
> ln: file2 is on a different file system
>
> Obviously you can't create a hard link across a file system, but why would "ln"
> think the files are on different file systems? How do I get around this?
>
>
> Mike Mosley
> University of North Carolina - Charlotte (UNCC)
>
>
Steve Hanson - FERMILAB, Batavia, Il.
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