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• Windows Symbolic and Hard Links

The real story is that Windows has had symbolic links since Windows 2000, or more specifically, NTFS 5.0. This used to be called "junction point" functionality, and was renamed "reparse point" functionality by the time Windows XP came out.

• Hard Link: pointing to the same physical file\directory-data-structure
• Hard links are just (possibly multiple) names associated with a file and cannot exist without their associated file. When one hard link is moved, renamed or deleted, any other hard links referring to the same file data remain unaffected. Only when the last hard link to a file is deleted, the file content disappears. [1]
  • cannot link to directories
• Sym Link: pointing to another file (on windows only files) via path
  

• http://geraldhuber.wordpress.com/tag/junction-points/

Eine weitere Möglichkeit in Windows sind Abzweigungspunkte (junction points), welche jedoch das Dateisystem NTFS 5 bzw. ab Version 3.0 (Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows 2003 und Windows Vista) voraussetzten. Diese sind den symbolischen Links auf Verzeichnisse sehr viel ähnlicher als Verknüpfungen.[2]

• http://elsdoerfer.name/index.php?page=ntfslink
  • extending Windows Explorer

• Comparison: Hard link and symbolic link

• http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/using-symlinks-in-windows-vista/
  • hard links, soft links, junctions
  • hard link - acts like a file itself (for directories this won't work - use 'junction')
  • soft link - a shortcut
  • junction - hard link pointing to directory