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Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of supporting links to files that cross mount points (that is, the file link refers to a file that is stored in a different volume).

Sagot :

Advantage - greater transparency; user doesn't need to be aware of mount points / link creation

Disadvantage - file system containing the link may be mounted while the file system containing the target file may not be; resulting in a dead link