Considerations for multiple hard links and journaling

 

If you have multiple hard links to a journaled integrated file system object, all the links should be saved and restored together so that the linkage is preserved as well as the associated journal information.

If specifying names in some of the journal related commands and if the names are really multiple hard links, then the object will only be operated on 'once'. The other hard links are essentially ignored.

Because multiple hard links point to the same object, and the journal entry has only the file identifier (File ID), which is the same for the object, then any journal interfaces that show the path name, for example, Display Journal (DSPJRN), show only one link name for the object. However, this should not cause problems because one can operate on an object by any name and get the same result.

 

Parent topic:

Journaling overview

 

Related concepts

Hard link