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NTFS is actually a pretty glorious filesystem. It even includes support for soft and hard links.. but for some reason Windows doesn't use them and instead prefe
by earlz 13y ago
NTFS is actually a pretty glorious filesystem. It even includes support for soft and hard links.. but for some reason Windows doesn't use them and instead prefers it's weird shortcut file abstraction which never works outside of Explorer
- ygra 13y agoYou haven't looked at the default filesystem layout of Windows Vista and later, did you? Hardlinks are extensively used in WinSxS to link the DLLs and executables to places where they used to live. Symlinks are used for many of the legacy directory names that some applications have hardcoded, e.g. C:\Documents and Settings links to C:\Users.
- Dylan16807 13y agoBut the user has no access to file symlinks without escalating to admin every time they want to make one.
- tanzam75 13y ago> But the user has no access to file symlinks without escalating to admin every time they want to make one. By default. This is a security restriction, like UAC. And so you can turn it off, just like you can turn off UAC.
- Dylan16807 13y agoAnd requiring that makes it useless for most purposes.
- marshray 13y agoThe 'shortcut' thing came from Win95, which ran on the VFAT filesystem.