Re: Hardlink Pitfalls (was: Patches for REALLY TINY 386 kernels)

[Satyam Sharma]

On 7/16/07, Al Boldi <a1426z@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Satyam Sharma wrote:
> > Or just "cp -al" to create multiple trees at (almost) no disk cost
> > that won't interfere with each other in any way, and makes the
> > development process / generating patchsets trifle easier as well ...
>
> That would be correct if hardlinks would actually do a CoW on modify, instead
> of misleading the user into thinking he is modifying an independent file.

"patch" already handles this correctly ... and backupcopy=auto,breakhardlink
in vim (and something similar in other editors I presume)

Satyam
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