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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Konqueror to inform about hard links?
From:       Matthew Woehlke <mw_triad () users ! sourceforge ! net>
Date:       2008-08-29 19:41:25
Message-ID: g99jd5$egm$1 () ger ! gmane ! org
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Thiago Macieira wrote:
> Michael Howell wrote:
>> And yes, it should be possible to hard link between files on multiple
>> 'mount --bind' links, as long as they are both on the same physical
>> file system. However, I just tried it and it didn't work.
> 
> That's not what Matthew said.
> 
> He said that the "other link" of an already-existing hardlinked file might 
> be in a bind mount or somewhere else in the host NFS filesystem that 
> isn't exported.
> 
> More: the "other link" could be hidden by a bind mount of another 
> filesystem.

Yes, that's exactly what I was trying to say; thanks, Thiago. (Hmm, and 
I didn't even think about using a bind mount to hide part of the FS, so 
that's yet /another/ way to hide one of the entries to a multiply-linked 
inode...)

-- 
Matthew
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