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Jonathan de Boyne Pollard
Sep 9, 2011, 8:52:34 AM9/9/11
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> Where is the number of hard links stored[?]
On filesystems such as EXT2/EXT3/EXT4: In the inode.
On filesystems such as NTFS: In the MFT record.
> and why does that place not also have the path-and-filenames for them?
What makes you think that it hasn't? Don't tar all filesystem formats
with the same brush. On NTFS each MFT record has a $FILE_NAME attribute
for each hard link to a file that records the MFT record of the
containing directory and the directory entry's name.
On filesystems such as EXT2/EXT3/EXT4: In the inode.
On filesystems such as NTFS: In the MFT record.
> and why does that place not also have the path-and-filenames for them?
What makes you think that it hasn't? Don't tar all filesystem formats
with the same brush. On NTFS each MFT record has a $FILE_NAME attribute
for each hard link to a file that records the MFT record of the
containing directory and the directory entry's name.
Adam Funk
Sep 9, 2011, 3:48:52 PM9/9/11
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OK, fair enough. I'm only familiar with the ext ones.
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