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  1. 31-10-2005, 06:33 PM #1
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    SMB2: NTFS gets symbolic link support

    I think the phrase is "about flippin' time!" Symbolic links make Linux life a treat, so it should be good to get them on a Windows platform.
    In Vista/Longhorn server, the file system (NTFS) will start supporting a new filesystem object (examples of existing filesystem objects are files, folders etc.). This new object is a symbolic link. Think of a symbolic link as a pointer to another file system object (it can be a file, folder, shortcut or another symbolic link). So then you ask how is that different from a short-cut (the .lnk file)? Well, a shortcut will only work when used from within the Windows shell, it is a construct of the shell, and other apps don’t understand short-cuts. To other apps, short-cuts look just like a file. With symbolic links, this concept is taken and is implemented within the file system. Apps when they open a symbolic link will now open the target by default (i.e. what the link points to), unless they explicitly ask for the symbolic link itself to be opened. Note symbolic links are an NTFS feature.
    That was from the guys in the Windows Server Division, just in case you had no idea what a symlink was (fair enough if you've never used anything other that FAT/NTFS filesystems.
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    about flippin' time!
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    Exactly!

    Now I can link C:\usr\src\windows-vista-6.2.2 to C:\usr\src\windows

    Oh, wait...
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    Quote Originally Posted by Stoo
    about flippin' time!
    Indeedly. But there are some issues with sym links (securirty redundency).
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    Quote Originally Posted by TheAnimus
    Indeedly. But there are some issues with sym links (securirty redundency).
    Can you tell me something that doesnt have a security issue tied to it. Offcourse it has secutity issues it HAS to have it humans arent perfect so we cant produce perfect things. You could say that there aint no such thing as perfection.
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    There are some paradyms of file storage which have intrinsic security benefits.

    They just aren't nice to use, and most of them are ideas not really suited to the real world either.

    I find sym links are often over used, i hope there is a sym link manager built in to vista which allows you to analysise and remove redundant links.
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