How many times is the disk accessed?

This is regarding generic UFS . 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.