Calvin Wood <calvin(dot)wood(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> symbolic link. But on win32, there is no equivalent. However, even under
> *nix system, I believe symbolic link can only be created for directories on
> the same hard drive. This seems less than optimal. Typically, one would
> place database files on RAID 5 drives (to maximize random access speed) and
> log files on mirrored drives (to maximize sequential access speed).
On Unix, a symbolic link can point anywhere. It's hard links that are
limited to the same filesystem (not necessarily a disk drive in the
hardware sense).
-Doug