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From: Ronan Waide <waider@waider.ie>
To: Paul Jakma <paul@clubi.ie>
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Subject: Re: [ILUG] How to copy some files
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On July 21, paul@clubi.ie said:
> 
> reiser's handles to files are hashes i believe. fat: dont think you 
> can make symlinks on it.

You can't; hard links only. And those get cleaned up by ScanDisk as
"cross-linked files". Shortcuts are the Windows analogue of symlinks,
and they don't work outside the Windows environment - i.e. they're an
artifact of the OS rather than the FS.

Cheers.
Waider.
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