Re: No soft-links for scp?

[Dotan Cohen <dotancohen@gmail.com>]

2009/2/26 Jochen Schulz <ml@well-adjusted.de>:
> Dotan Cohen:
>>
>> I need to softlink to files on a remote machine on my home network. It
>> appears that scp does not support softlinks. Is there another way to
>> do this?
>
> Not directly. Softlinks always point to filesystems in your local
> hierarchy. A workaround is to use sshfs (or NFS or any other network
> filesystem).
>

Thanks, Jochen. This document [1] leads me to believe that hard links
must be on the same file system (as they are referring to inodes)
while soft links can be on remote file systems (because they only
contain the path to a different file).

[1] http://linuxgazette.net/105/pitcher.html

What I need is the file directory tree of a remote system, browsable
locally even when that system is offline.

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