2005/8/30, Graeme Humphries <graeme.humphries AT vcom DOT com>:
> Guy Dallaire wrote:
> 
> >>Perhaps the problem DLE has lots of hard links?
> >>
> >>
> >Hard Links ????
> >
> >
> As opposed to symbolic links. You'll probably want to read up at
> Wikipedia on the two if you haven't heard about them before:
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_link
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbolic_link
> 
> Hard linking is fairly depricated these days AFAIK, but it's still used
> in certain circumstances.
> 

Yes, thanks. I know about hard links. But how would it impact the size
or performance of my backups ? And is there a way to find the number
of HARD links ?