> > > > Can I ask whether Hardlinks or SymLinks are supposed to work in the
> > > > vfat file system?
> > > No. Vfat doesn't have any notion remotely related to symlinks or hard
> > links. Note that you can make an ext2-fs simlink that points to a file
> > or directory on a mounted MS-DOS file system!
> Yeah but that's because you're creating in ext2 which is clueful about
> such things. for vfat you'd have to create an evil translator that takes
> .lnk files and translates them to symlinks and vice versa. And it would
> have to do it transparently. And then you'd have to wonder what windows
> would think of a .lnk file that pointed to a partition it doesn't think
> exists. :) Sounds like fun to me. :)
What about just hacking vfat (optionally, of course:) and dosfsck to allow
crosslinks? that would be a kind of "hardlink" , wouldn't it?
ok, ok, don't take it seriously ;>
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cat /dev/boiler/water | tea | sieve > /cup
mount -t hdev /dev/human/mouth01 /mouth ; cat /cup >/mouth/gulp
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