Re: [pgsql-hackers-win32] [HACKERS] win32 tablespace handing

2004-10-06 Thread Bruce Momjian
Reini Urban wrote: > Bruce Momjian schrieb: > > Andrew Dunstan wrote: > >>Reini Urban said: > >>>Zeugswetter Andreas SB SD schrieb: > >>hardlinks and junctions don't work across physical disks, only > >>symlinks. > > > >Where did you read this? I just looked and can see no such > >

Re: [pgsql-hackers-win32] [HACKERS] win32 tablespace handing

2004-10-06 Thread Reini Urban
Bruce Momjian schrieb: Andrew Dunstan wrote: Reini Urban said: Zeugswetter Andreas SB SD schrieb: 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. There is no such restriction for junctions, I just trie

Re: [pgsql-hackers-win32] [HACKERS] win32 tablespace handing

2004-10-06 Thread Bruce Momjian
Andrew Dunstan wrote: > Reini Urban said: > > Zeugswetter Andreas SB SD schrieb: > 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. > >> > >> There is no such restriction for junctio

Re: [pgsql-hackers-win32] [HACKERS] win32 tablespace handing

2004-10-06 Thread Andrew Dunstan
Reini Urban said: > Zeugswetter Andreas SB SD schrieb: 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. >> >> There is no such restriction for junctions, I just tried it to be >> safe. > >

Re: [pgsql-hackers-win32] [HACKERS] win32 tablespace handing

2004-10-06 Thread Reini Urban
Zeugswetter Andreas SB SD schrieb: 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. There is no such restriction for junctions, I just tried it to be safe. Yes, sorry. I had old NTFS4 information. NTFS5

Re: [HACKERS] win32 tablespace handing

2004-10-06 Thread Zeugswetter Andreas SB SD
> > 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. There is no such restriction for junctions, I just tried it to be safe. Andreas ---(end of broadcast)---

Re: [HACKERS] win32 tablespace handing

2004-10-05 Thread Reini Urban
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, simi

Re: [HACKERS] win32 tablespace handing

2004-10-05 Thread Magnus Hagander
>> 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 though

Re: [HACKERS] win32 tablespace handing

2004-10-05 Thread Bruce Momjian
Reini Urban wrote: > 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 > > sif

[HACKERS] win32 tablespace handing

2004-10-05 Thread Reini Urban
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 tho