Calvin Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> symbolic link. But on win32, there is no equivalent. However, even under 
> *nix system, I believe symbolic link can only be created for directories on 
> the same hard drive. This seems less than optimal. Typically, one would 
> place database files on RAID 5 drives (to maximize random access speed) and 
> log files on mirrored drives (to maximize sequential access speed).

On Unix, a symbolic link can point anywhere.  It's hard links that are
limited to the same filesystem (not necessarily a disk drive in the
hardware sense).

-Doug

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