Re: Replacement computers for bushfire victims

2009-02-12 Thread Karl Goetz
On Wed, 11 Feb 2009 12:28:01 +1100 Stewart Johnston wrote: > Just heard a lady on the abc talking all the computers that will have > been lost in the bushfires ("and all the kids wanting to check > facebook for support"). While it's not the top priority for people > just now, I imagine that it m

Re: Hard links

2009-02-12 Thread David Ryder
On Thu, 2009-02-12 at 17:06 +1000, Paul Gear wrote: > David Ryder wrote: > > ... > >> The underlying reason is that a softlink is a 'reference in a > >> directory' to another 'directory entry'. When you delete a file or > >> directory, the filesystem has no 'local' record of who else may be > >> po