My OperaHardlink Magic
By Aenn Seidhe PriestS-Priest. Monday, May 7, 2007 5:41:11 PM
Hardlink Magic, the GUI utility for creating hardlinks under Windows NT 5.
Hard Link Magic 1.07.
In a modern filesystem, files are stored simply as indexed objects.
A file is a chunk of data on a filesystem.
A text filename is a reference to that chunk of data.
There can be more than one name reference to a file.
A hardlink is simply a second (third, etc.) reference to a file.
This allows referencing the same large files (ex. disk images, game container files, etc.) multiple times within the same partition (unlike Unix OS, NT 5.x hardlinking doesn't allow links across partitions and different physical drives). As an example, a disk image can be stored in one directory (\Images\Large-Linux-Distro.iso) and hardlinked to an FTP user's directory (\home\FTP\Anonymous\Large-Linux-Distro.iso) without actual copying of the same data across the same drive.
Hard Link Magic also allows multiple hardlinking, where a batch of files can be hardlinked into a different directory at a time.
Hard Link Magic 1.07.
In a modern filesystem, files are stored simply as indexed objects.
A file is a chunk of data on a filesystem.
A text filename is a reference to that chunk of data.
There can be more than one name reference to a file.
A hardlink is simply a second (third, etc.) reference to a file.
This allows referencing the same large files (ex. disk images, game container files, etc.) multiple times within the same partition (unlike Unix OS, NT 5.x hardlinking doesn't allow links across partitions and different physical drives). As an example, a disk image can be stored in one directory (\Images\Large-Linux-Distro.iso) and hardlinked to an FTP user's directory (\home\FTP\Anonymous\Large-Linux-Distro.iso) without actual copying of the same data across the same drive.
Hard Link Magic also allows multiple hardlinking, where a batch of files can be hardlinked into a different directory at a time.
