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Stainless Steel Rat <ratinox@peorth.gweep.net> writes:

>>>>>> "MD" == Mikael Djurfeldt <mdj@nada.kth.se> writes:

MD> Is it possible to define the crosspost-link-function to use symbolic
MD> links instead of hard links?

> Important reason why not: not all filesystems support symbolic links.

Symbolic links are about 20 years old and have withstood the test of
time.  If a system hasn't implemented them by now, why can't it safely
be ignored?