[172] in Info-AFS_Redistribution
Hard links across directories
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alan Bell)
Mon Jun 24 22:47:27 1991
Date: Mon, 24 Jun 1991 18:26:02 PDT
From: Alan Bell <bell@parc.xerox.com>
To: info-afs@transarc.com
We are starting to more seriously use AFS and have run across a problem
which we would like to learn out other sites have solved. AFS does not
allow hard links across directories. We are finding this to be quite
annoying. Many packages have such links. We have the choice of not
putting the package on afs or changing all the links to symbolic ones
which would have to be redone on each new release of the package.
A specific example is the sunos release. We have the full sunos release
on an NFS file server and would like to put it on afs. When we rdist it
over, we get many complaints from rdist.
How have other sites dealt with this? Has your user community been
tolerant of this non-standard behavior?
