issymlink
Issymlink is a term used to describe a proposed mechanism for creating and managing symbolic links in a way that preserves target integrity across networked and mutable file systems. Unlike traditional symlinks, issymlinks carry additional metadata that validates the link's target and can offer fallbacks when targets are moved or renamed. The concept arose in discussions of distributed file systems and large-scale deployments where links frequently break during data migration.
Design goals include resilience to path changes, cross-volume resolution, and security against link spoofing. An issymlink
Usage typically involves a dedicated tool or library that can create issymlinks, resolve them, or repair broken
Adoption is limited and experimental; there is no formal standard. Prototypes exist in academic projects and
See also symbolic link, hard link, extended attributes, distributed file system.