resymlink(1M)

NAME
     resymlink - force a recreation of a symbolic link file

SYNOPSIS
     resymlink file1 [file2 file3 ...]

DESCRIPTION
     All named files are recreated with their current symbolic link
     information.  A symbolic link is a special kind of file whose contents
     are the name of another file (see symlink(2)).  A symbolic link contains
     the name of the file to which it is linked, and is created with the ln(1)
     command.

     The resymlink command allows a user to recreate a current symbolic link,
     possibly using different filesystem creation policies.  In particular, if
     the Extent Filesystem global system parameter efs_inline is non-zero,
     symbolic link information is stored within an EFS file's inode structure,
     and not in a separate (out-of-line) filesystem block.  This saves disk
     space and incore memory space and is faster to interpret for symbolic
     link files that are currently being accessed by the system.  For more
     information on the global system parameter efs_inline, see systune(1M)
     and inode(4).

WARNINGS
     Inline symbolic links are not supported on systems prior to IRIX 5.3
     (32-bit) or IRIX 6.0.1 (64-bit).  If an EFS filesystem that contains
     inline symbolic links is to be moved to a pre-5.3/6.0.1 system--moved
     either physically or logically, as when a system is downgraded to a
     previous release--all inline symbolic links must first be recreated out-
     of-line.  This is accomplished by setting the efs_inline system parameter
     to 0 and running resymlink on all EFS symbolic links that have been
     created in-line.  For example:

          find / -local -type l -exec resymlink {} \;


SEE ALSO
     find(1), fsdb(1M), systune(1M), inode(4).