topic Re: Soft link & hard link in Operating System - HP-UX

Soft link & hard link

VVS — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 09:49:18 GMT

Why soft link exist across file system and not the hard link?

Re: Soft link & hard link

Jeeshan — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 10:01:12 GMT

soft link belongs to file and hard link belongs to directory.

Re: Soft link & hard link

Shrikant Lavhate — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 10:03:31 GMT

Soft link is points to two different inodes on disk thats why it can cross FS. for hard link
the data will be stored only once on the harddrive, but there are two inodes pointing to it.

Re: Soft link & hard link

Ivan Krastev — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 10:19:54 GMT

See also http://linuxgazette.net/105/pitcher.html

regards,
ivan

Re: Soft link & hard link

VVS — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 10:01:33 GMT

I got the sufficient knowledge of the topic