Hi,

Jeffrey J. Kosowsky top-posted (please don't do that) on 2009-01-08 13:11:17 
-0500 [Re: [BackupPC-users] vista backup question]:
> [...]
> Similar but not the same by any means.
> Junction points are more "powerful" and hence more dangerous than
> hardlinks.
>   - Junction points can be on different file systems
>   - Junction points can be directories
> Also:
>   - Junction points require special utility to delete properly (vs
>       standard "rm" for hard links)
>   - With hard links, all links are identical -- i.e. there is no
>       notion of which is the original and which are the links. Not true
>       with junctions since the storage is associated with the original file

that sounds pretty much like bind mounts on Linux.

Regards,
Holger

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