Re: chroot & mount --bind = security ?

From: Sam Baskinger (sam_at_reefedge.com)
Date: 04/10/04

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    Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2004 13:03:41 -0400
To: Marius Huse Jacobsen <mahuja@c2i.net>

    >I've never seen hard links being "not recommended" - perhaps except
    >when symlinks could do the job.
    >
    >

    Folks typically favor soft links over hard links because soft links
    don't introduce odd cases of ownership and permissions. There is also
    not the trouble of reference counting to reclaim the disk space. There
    are also problems with syncrhonization using the file and updating
    things without breaking others. There is also the problem of proting
    the notion of hardlinks over different network file systems.

    In short, there's no disasterous monster waiting to devour your system
    regarding hardlinks, but they cause their problems and in most cases
    soft links do the job.

    Hope this is helpful.

    Sam

    Sam

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