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symlink symbolic links inode

Newsgroups: comp.unix.sco.misc
From: Bela Lubkin <belal@sco.com>
Subject: Re: Dynmaic symbolic link?
Date: Sat, 6 Oct 2001 01:08:53 GMT
Message-ID: <20011005180853.Q5148@mammoth.ca.sco.com> 
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Stephen M. Dunn wrote:

> In article <20011003162354.M5148@mammoth.ca.sco.com> Bela Lubkin <belal@sco.com> writes:
> $Well, not exactly either.  That's filesystem-specific.  HTFS (the most
> $common filesystem on OpenServer) stores symbolic links of up to 52 bytes
> $in the inode.  Longer symlinks still get written into a filesystem
> $block.  EAFS/S51K filesystems do not write symlinks into the inode.  I
> $don't know about DTFS; nor about other Caldera or non-Caldera OSes...
> 
>    DTFS has a similar in-inode symlink facility to that of HTFS, though
> I don't recall the length limitation off the top of my head.

Looks like it's 192.  So "most reasonable" symlinks should fit in a DTFS
inode.  Some of the SSO symlinks shipped with OSR5 don't fit into the
HTFS 52-byte limit, though a pretty good majority of them do.  (Well, on
my test system I see 5075 /opt/K and /var/opt/K symlinks <= 52 bytes,
3828 > 52, or 57% fit within the inode; not counting SkunkWare stuff,
which comes in at 249 & 637 or 28%.)

>Bela<
 

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