This is regarding [generic UFS](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_filesystem).

From what I understand when an absolute path is given (eg: `/home/userU/file.txt`) the disk is accessed for each directory and the file. Hence in this case the disk is accessed 4 times 

1 For `/`, 1 for `home/`, 1 for `/userU`, 1 for `file.txt`

My questions are

1. If a hard link `/hL` is given, pointing to the inode of the above file, in what order is the disk accessed?
2. If a soft link `/sL` is given, pointing to the above file, in what order is the disk accessed?

Assume that no inodes or any other data are cached initially in all three cases.