[186] in Info-AFS_Redistribution
C news and hard links
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan I. Kamens)
Tue Jul 2 16:33:58 1991
Date: Tue, 2 Jul 91 15:50:19 -0400
From: "Jonathan I. Kamens" <jik@pit-manager.mit.edu>
To: rdew+@alw.nih.gov
Cc: info-afs@transarc.com
> C News does not use hard links for filing news articles, as did its
>B News predecessor, and so can be used safely for spooling news articles
>into AFS and across file partitions.
I was under the impression that C News *does* use hard links when it
can do so, but falls back on symbolic linking when a hard link fails.
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