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From: Dennis Ritchie <dmr@plan9.bell-labs.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] FS question
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Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2003 20:47:15 -0500
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Sape said,

 > Symbolic links came much later (in BSD if I remember correctly) and, in early
 > symbolic links, a single data block would be sacrificed for storing the name linked
 > to.  The name was still not in the inode metadata.

Yes. Actually I was the first to implement symbolic links,
in a post-V7 system, but it was after CSRG (and their ARPA
oversight committee, of which I was a member) decided to
implement them.  I sent the code to CSRG.

I argued at the time that two kinds of links was
one too many, and it would be good to get rid of
the hard links.  Neither they nor we did this
in stock Unix, of course.

	Dennis