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Additionally, the NTFS symbolic link implementation provides full support for cross-filesystem links. While NTFS junction points support only absolute paths on local drives, the NTFS symbolic links allow linking using relative paths. Since NTFS 3.1, a symbolic link can also point to a file or remote SMB network path. The ntfs.sys released with Windows Vista made the functionality available to user mode applications by default. Third-party filter drivers – such as Masatoshi Kimura's opensource senable driver – could however be installed to make the feature available in user mode as well. NTFS 3.1 was introduced together with Windows XP, but the functionality was not made available (through ntfs.sys) to user mode applications. From NTFS 3.1 onwards, symbolic links can be created for any kind of file system object. Symbolic links to directories or volumes, called junction points and mount points, were introduced with NTFS 3.0 that shipped with Windows 2000. Such file is called a hard or symbolic link depending on a way it's stored on the filesystem. The object being pointed to is called the target. The NTFS file system defines various ways to redirect files and folders, e.g., to make a file point to another file or its contents without making a copy of it. ![]() ![]() For the video game studio, see Junction Point Studios.
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