>but you can get a large number of >1 linked >files, when you copy full directories with "cp -rl". Which I do a lot >when developing. I've done that a few times with the Linux tree. Can you shed some light on how you use this technique? (I.e. what does it do for you?) Many people are of the opinion that since the invention of symbolic links, multiple hard links to files have been more trouble than they're worth. I purged the last of them from my personal system years ago. This thread has been a good overview of the negative side of hardlinking; it would be good to see what the positives are. -- Bryan Henderson IBM Almaden Research Center San Jose CA Filesystems - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
