SFS and Minidisk Link Processing

Two kinds of links are covered in the NFS protocol: hard links and symbolic links. Hard links are supported via the NFS LINK operation, and symbolic links are supported via the NFS SYMLINK and READLINK operations.

VM's CMS does not have any native support for hard links or symbolic links for minidisk file systems and SFS. The VM NFS Server provides no additional support for symbolic links on minidisk or in SFS, but it does provide limited support for hard links. This support is minimal, and is intended only to facilitate some NFS clients' intermediate use of hard links during NFS operations such as RENAME.

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