[181] in Info-AFS_Redistribution
Re: Hard Link Problem
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (paul killey)
Thu Jun 27 14:06:27 1991
To: miked@node-19ac0.boeing.com (Mike Davis)
Cc: info-afs@transarc.com
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 25 Jun 91 08:06:43 PDT."
Date: Thu, 27 Jun 91 11:55:55 -0400
From: paul killey <paul@caen.engin.umich.edu>
i wrote an extremely quick and ugly program that reads tar
files and prints out the names of files that are links and what they
are links to. it works a lot of the time.
that output is munged into a shell script that creates symlinks
or copies files, whichever strikes me as the "right thing." then, i
run that script after untarring the file.
isode release and many others have a multitude of hard links
in their distribution. others, like mh have ln commands in makefiles
that you just have to hunt down and do something about.
Warning: Religion++;
To be candid, my personal point of view is that sharing things like
mail and news spool areas via a filesystem protocol like AFS (or NFS, or
whatever else I could think of) is an aberrant use of file systems and
hope that people do not spend time making that doable. That's a problem,
and for a good reason.
Religion = 0;
--paul
