What is the importance of the .DFSFolderLink

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Published on 2011-03-01T14:03:27Z Indexed on 2011/03/01 15:26 UTC
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I am currently building a new DFS namespace setup.

My folder E:\CommonStuff\ is already shared on the fileserver. And now it is also shared as \DOMAIN\CommonStuff

I got 3 questions:

I see .DFSFolderLink records in all folders I create in the DFS Managment console. But all folders that was in E:\CommonStuff allready does not contain these records.
Are the .DFSFolderLink records important?
Does it make any difference if I create subfolders "the old way" in the E:\Commonstuff\ or if I do it within the DFS Managment console?

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