Re: More on Hard Links

--- Hubert Chan wrote: 

> There's another type of link that I think users may
> want -- something
> like symbolic links, but is resilient to file
> movement -- at least
> within the same filesystem.  That could be
> implemented by storing a
> pointer to some sort of filesystem ID, and an inode
> number.  This is
> what I call firm links, and what I think Leo would
> call a soft link.

And what I would call an "alias"!  They would be
resilient to movement across filesystems as well, even
if the other filesystem becomes unmounted (see my
"cloning" proposal for a possible implementation).



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