[Discuss] nfs hard links

Charles Bennett ccb at acm.org
Wed Jan 30 10:28:28 EST 2013


Given that a hard link is where multiple directory entries reference the same inode number within a filesystem, there is no way I would expect an NFS client to be able to do this.  The client would need to have knowledge of major, minor of the server's block devices.


ccb


Rich Pieri <richard.pieri at gmail.com> wrote:On Wed, 30 Jan 2013 14:31:02 +0000
"Edward Ned Harvey (blu)" <blu at nedharvey.com> wrote:

> Can you hard link a NFS mounted file to another NFS mounted file on
> the same NFS system?

Maybe. It requires POSIX-compliant hard links on the server file
system, the server daemon, the client NFS software and the client OS.
If you are missing any of these then attempting to create the link will
fail.

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Rich P.
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