> The idea, from my (minimal) understanding of it, is that symlinks may
> become non-inode entities, and that this is preparatory to that.
> 
> Personally, my two cents on this is that it's a bad idea

I wholeheartedly agree!

> But then, it's not as if consutling me is a necessary part of any
> filesystem changes or anything :-)

No, but things like that tend to confuse the average user [read: me :-)], and
it would be nice if there were a more obvious way of finding out about such 
changes.

Having said that, do you have any idea about a one-liner that sorts ls output
according to the timestamp of the file the link *points to*?


Thanks -- Volker

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