HardLink ?

[Bill Davidsen]

JB wrote:
> admin lewis<adminlewis<at>  gmail.com>  writes:
>
>> ...
> A hard link is basically a link to the i-node number of the original file.
>
> i-node numbers are not portable across different disks.
>
> Hard links can only be created to files on the same file system.
>
> To create a hard link, the original file and the link file should exist in the
> same partition.
>
Actually in one filesystem, partitions have nothing to do with it. You can have 
hard links in LVM, regardless of the PV under it.

> LVM is a logical superstructure consisting of different physical partitions on
> same or different disks.
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> JB
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