20 Feb
2010
20 Feb
'10
5:24 p.m.
Martin v. Löwis wrote:
The latter is not really true: NFS most certainly supports hard links. I can't try right now, but I would be surprised if SMB didn't support both symbolic and hard links, given the right server and client versions.
I've never seen nor used NFS on Windows so I can't comment on NFS. Some time ago I did some experiments with links but I wasn't able to create a hard link on a remote SMB server. However Wikipedia claims that CIFS support hard and sym links. Your conclusion regarding server and client version sounds plausible. In my humble opinion links are aliens on Windows. I wouldn't use them to implement virtualenv. :) Christian