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Re:Reflections on NixOS by teh on Monday August 22, 2016 @08:48AM (#12335917)
> Symlinks have all sorts of weird semantics on different Unix machines.

Is there any other implementation than posix in the wild these days?

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Re:Reflections on NixOS by lil1729 on Monday August 22, 2016 @08:50AM (#12335932)
http://www.weirdnet.nl/apple/rename.html

Yes, I know it is fixed. But who knows what one runs into!

And this: http://blog.moertel.com/posts/2005-08-22-how-to-change-symli...

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Re:Reflections on NixOS by mbrock on Monday August 22, 2016 @09:39AM (#12336226)
Well, are there any advanced filesystems that provide better functionality and which work on Linux and OS X? Or what would be the alternative?
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Re:Reflections on NixOS by lil1729 on Monday August 22, 2016 @10:10AM (#12336417)
btrfs perhaps? or zfs?
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