Fred Smith wrote:

> BZZZZZZZZZZZT!

> Sorry, that's not right.

> A hard link is ...
> The only difference is that they may be in different
> directories and have different names/owners/groups/permissions.

BZZZZZZZZZZZT!

Sorry, that's not right. (SmileyifIdidsmileyswhichIdon't).

Can't have different owners/groups/permissions--that's all kept in the inode.
And there's only one of those--the link count in the inode is incremented for
each hard link.

(This will probably be answered again, but I couldn't resist the symmetry
of being able to reuse and return the buzzer.)

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  Dave "Feeling like I have a few unreferenced inodes myself today" Ihnat
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