>[...]
> 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?
AFS doesn't let you create hard links that span directories, because that
would be a way to violate the directory-level ACL's (or so the documentation
says). Personally, I always thought that was a dumb reason to disallow
cross-directory hard links (but it may be there are other reasons for this
not mentioned).
How do you get around it? Turn those hard links into soft links. I don't
think there's another way.
--Ken
