On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 12:04 AM, Nobody <nob...@nowhere.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 02 Aug 2011 02:32:54 -0700, loial wrote: > > > However I do not think it is possible to hard link directories ? > > Modern Unices disallow hard links to directories, as it makes the > directory "tree" not a tree, so anything which performs a recursive walk > must explicitly check for cycles to avoid infnite recursion. > > Older systems which allowed hard links to directories required root > privilege to do so. > > Actually, I recently heard about a system with multiple Solaris Containers set up, that were sharing their /usr via directory hardlinks. The question came up: How does one back up such a system? But ufsdump worked.
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