Holger Parplies wrote: >> AFAIK there is no harm in making hard links. You are just consuming inodes. > > For the record: making hardlinks to files does *not* consume inodes. It adds > further directory entries pointing to the same inode.
Thanks. Actually, I was a bit confused about the subject. I thought that the file name was stored in the inode and that a directory was a list of inodes. But a simple test reveals that I'm wrong and the inode doesn't have the file name an a directory is a list of (file name, inode) pairs. Thanks. Daniel. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Register Now for Creativity and Technology (CaT), June 3rd, NYC. CaT is a gathering of tech-side developers & brand creativity professionals. Meet the minds behind Google Creative Lab, Visual Complexity, Processing, & iPhoneDevCamp asthey present alongside digital heavyweights like Barbarian Group, R/GA, & Big Spaceship. http://www.creativitycat.com _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
