On Fri, 2018-03-09 at 07:59 +1100, Stephen Morris wrote:
> It is my understanding that currently when a file copied to any
> location, a physical copy is not produced, the copy is a hardlink to the
> original file, until such time as one of the "copies" is changed and
> then both become physical files with one file reflecting the pre-change
> contents
What you describe here is linking, not copying. Copying always produces
an apparently independent file ('Apparently' because on Copy-On-Write
filesystems they two may actually share disk blocks until one of them
changes, but that is *not* the same as linking).
poc
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