From: | Reini Urban <rurban(at)x-ray(dot)at> |
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To: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
Cc: | PostgreSQL Developers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, pgsql-hackers-win32(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: win32 tablespace handing |
Date: | 2004-10-05 18:56:17 |
Message-ID: | 4162EE51.6070800@x-ray.at |
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Bruce Momjian schrieb:
>>Reini Urban schrieb:
>>>Cygwin can do symlinks for directories via the magic .lnk file.
>>>But Cygwin can also do junctions via hardlinks in ln.exe.
>>>I thought link() calls the junction code.
>>>I'll investigate why the libc link() failed, and if ln.exe does some
>>>sifferent magic, similar to pgsymlink.
>>
>>I thought a little bit over this.
>>
>>hardlinks and junctions don't work across physical disks, only symlinks.
>
>
> Where did you read this? I just looked and can see no such restriction.
Sorry, obviously I just got old information.
So we have to update our old cygwin code for NTFS5.
You can use Volume Mount Points with DeviceIoControl now too, since
Win2000 NTFS 5. Sorry. I only knew about Directory Junction Points.
http://www.codeproject.com/w2k/junctionpoints.asp
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Reini Urban
http://xarch.tu-graz.ac.at/home/rurban/
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