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taygibb
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Soo guys,
Why would you ever use a junction point, they can only point to something on a local volume, they can only point to folders and symbolic links can do everything that they can.
Now at first i thought ok so symlinks are softlinks, maybe junction points are hardlinks, but they not, they dont are still a Reparse Point which means that its handled by a file system filter and doesnt alter the MFT in the way that hardlinks do, also i see in Windows that there are two junction points off the top of my mind:
There is a junction point that directs the legacy "C:\Documents and Settings" to "C:\Users".
There is also a junction point that directs the old "C:\Users\Default User" folder to "C:\Users\Default" folder.
But then why in the world use a symlink to link "C:\Users\All Users" to "C:\Program Data" why not use a junction point, better yet why not make them all into symlinks.
All Microsofts documentation is very convoluted on this matter, also i know that you can use a symlink to link to an SMB share.
WHAT ARE THE MEANING of the junction points, why they no use symlinks?
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Why would you ever use a junction point, they can only point to something on a local volume, they can only point to folders and symbolic links can do everything that they can.
Now at first i thought ok so symlinks are softlinks, maybe junction points are hardlinks, but they not, they dont are still a Reparse Point which means that its handled by a file system filter and doesnt alter the MFT in the way that hardlinks do, also i see in Windows that there are two junction points off the top of my mind:
There is a junction point that directs the legacy "C:\Documents and Settings" to "C:\Users".
There is also a junction point that directs the old "C:\Users\Default User" folder to "C:\Users\Default" folder.
But then why in the world use a symlink to link "C:\Users\All Users" to "C:\Program Data" why not use a junction point, better yet why not make them all into symlinks.
All Microsofts documentation is very convoluted on this matter, also i know that you can use a symlink to link to an SMB share.
WHAT ARE THE MEANING of the junction points, why they no use symlinks?
More...