问题 When we create a symlink, the number of bytes the symlink takes up is exactly the length of the origin it points to. For instance, $ ln -s dest link1 $ ln -s longer_dest link2 $ ls -l lrwxrwxrwx 1 username 4 Mar 26 20:21 link1 -> dest lrwxrwxrwx 1 username 11 Mar 26 20:21 link2 -> longer_dest where link1 takes up 4 bytes, which is the length of dest ; link2 takes up 11 bytes, which is the length of longer_dest . Therefore, symlinks are in fact no more than the destination path stored in plain