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

[Al Boldi]

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.

Moral of the story:  try to avoid hardlinks as much as possible!


Thanks!

--
Al

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