Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 21 Jul 1997 22:38:20 -0400 | From | James Mastros <> | Subject | Re: FAT/VFAT/FAT32 reimplimintation... |
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At 10:37 PM 7/28/97 -0400, Ion Badulescu wrote: >On Mon, 21 Jul 1997, James Mastros wrote: > >> That should work, since fatish will never support hard-links (it is obvious >> how it should be implemented, but every fsck for DOS (chkdisk, norton disk >> doctor, scandisk) I have seen reports mutiple files with the same starting >> cluster as errors. > >And for good reason. As long as you don't have something independent from >the directory entry to keep your link count, don't even think about >hard links. If you delete the file, all your "hard links" will point to >void, and there will be no way to avoid this, short of modifying the >filesystem code to the point where DOS wouldn't be able to keep it >coherent. > > >Ionut >
OK. I'm an idiot.
-=- James
PS - Please, don't send me messages about my self esteem... It's the least of my psychological problems.
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