NWFS mangled name algorithm.
Bob Mastors
bob.mastors at crosstor.com
Wed Mar 29 17:55:56 GMT 2000
I found this article in the MSDN (Jan 00):
HOWTO: Create Hard Links in Windows NT and Windows 2000
ID: Q234727
Here is a snippet from the summary of the article:
Windows NT and Windows 2000 support hard links on NTFS disk volumes.
Following are two programmatic approaches that exist for creating hard links:
Use CreateHardLink() in Windows 2000.
Use the Win32 BackupWrite() function to construct a hard link
in Windows NT and Windows 2000.
Bob
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----- Original Message -----
From: Elrond <Elrond at Wunder-Nett.org>
To: Multiple recipients of list SAMBA-TECHNICAL <samba-technical at samba.org>
Sent: Wednesday, March 29, 2000 10:41 AM
Subject: Re: NWFS mangled name algorithm.
>
> Hi John,
>
> On Wed, Mar 29, 2000 at 02:28:23PM +1000, John E. Malmberg wrote:
> [...]
> > > AFAIK ntfs is the other way round: You normaly have long
> > > names and the short names are just an "attribute" (the ntfs
> > > filesystem in Linux can present them as hardlinks. Oh: and
> > > ntfs also has hardlinks on its own, which nobody tells you
> > > loudly.).
> >
> > The one type of hardlinks that I know about, CHKDSK will remove, as it
> > considers them an error.
>
> You can have "fake" hardlinks on (v)fat, but these are
> illegal, and chkdsk will remove them.
>
> ntfs on the other hand supports real hardlinks (they added
> them to satisfy unix95 or posix or whatever) I've to say, I
> never tried them, but I remember a "ln" was in ntreskit,
> I'll maybe look at it.
>
>
> Elrond
>
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