***BOGO*** Re: Res: Konqueror to inform about hard links?

[Matthew Woehlke <mw_triad@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Please don't post TOFU (in this case, you /did/ include context, so just 
deleting the FU part would have been nice!).

dantti85-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>> Well, a hardlink is a real inode entry
> 
> wrong, a hardlink is another entry on the fs pointing
> to the Same inode. check with df -i to see that the 
> available inodes remains the same.

Heh, I just /knew/ when I wrote that, that someone was going to call me 
on my sloppy terminology. But, yes, that's what I was trying to say. A 
hardlink is an actual FS entry pointing to an inode (that is a real file).

>> Also, fwiw it is very difficult to find the other links of a hardlink
> 
> the only way to find another hardlink is comparing 
> each inode
> The column after the perms are how many hard links that file has
> 
> 498847 -rw-r--r-- 3 daniel daniel 6 2008-08-28 19:29 third

Right, and since the other link may be in a different mountpoint (think 
bind mounts or NFS), trying to find the other link can be difficult or 
even impossible.

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Matthew
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