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mv while maintaining relative symbolic links

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From: Peng Yu <pengyu.ut <at> gmail.com>
To: "Voelker, Bernhard" <bernhard.voelker <at> siemens-enterprise.com>
Cc: "6138 <at> debbugs.gnu.org" <6138 <at> debbugs.gnu.org>,
	"bug-coreutils <at> gnu.org" <bug-coreutils <at> gnu.org>,
	Bob Proulx <bob <at> proulx.com>
Subject: Re: bug#6138: mv while maintaining relative symbolic links
Date: Mon, 10 May 2010 08:13:30 -0500

On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 4:37 AM, Voelker, Bernhard
<bernhard.voelker <at> siemens-enterprise.com> wrote:
> Peng Yu wrote:
>
>> I agree with you that this is may not be possible for whole file
>> system. But under the assumptions that symbolic links and their
>> targets are always in a number of directories (user configurable) on
>> the same file system, then it is doable. This is practically what I
>> need.
>
> you need a reference to the actual inode, don't you?
> So what a about using hardlinks?

Harlinks do not work across filesystems. I think that it is better
stick with symbolic links.

-- 
Regards,
Peng

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