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jborean93 | 5 months ago

It had junction points and hard links but symbolic links were added in Vista/Server 2008.

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chasil|5 months ago

This seems odd, as there was a POSIX layer in Windows from the beginning, and I can't see how it could do without symbolic links.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_POSIX_subsystem

jborean93|5 months ago

No idea if the POSIX subsystem used NTFS or some other filesystem but if it was NTFS it probably just used the same reparse data buffer. It's just that Windows only added a symlink buffer structure in Vista/2008. You can manually use the same data buffer in older Windows versions it just won't know what to do with them just like all the other reparse data structures.