Doug Laidlaw a écrit :
I made this one from Linux. I can't even see them in Windows. They
seem to count as hidden files.
msw has had symbolic links not recognisable as such by Linux for a long
time, by default hidden under msw.
What you observe seems to indicate that msw7 has migrated to unix-style
symbolic links.
Interesting. Gradually Microsoft is adopting more and more unix (and
Linux-compatible) features.
(BTW, it would be easier for others to respond point by point if you and
others didn't top post.)
Doug.
On Sun, 8 Jul 2012 15:08:06 -0700
Jeff Robins<[email protected]> wrote:
NTFS has had symbolic links for a long time. I think since at least
win2k, but no one used them, even MS. I don't think you could even
make them with the normal tools.
--Jeff
On Jul 8, 2012 7:37 AM, "Doug Laidlaw"<[email protected]> wrote:
Everybody probably knows this except me :(
Browsing my new Windows 7 installation, I noticed a lot of symbolic
links, identified by Linux as such. AFAIK, this is new in Win7; it
wasn't there in WinXP, which I have been using.
I have just used this advantage to get around the following problem:
Directories with spaces can be excluded in rsnapshot, by replacing
the space with a ?, but a bug in rsync prevents directories with
spaces from being backed up at all. In the parent Windows
directory, I created a symlink without spaces for the inaccessible
sub-directory. I was able to create it and add it
to /etc/rsnapshot.conf, and the backup proceeded to completion.
Changing the name of the subdirectory would probably have made it
unusable by its Windows app. If Windows hadn't allowed it, I would
have put the link somewhere in Linux.
You can also rename directories in msw, to remove spaces, or just make
shorter.
Doug.
--
André
