On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 03:43:14PM -0800, Bryan Henderson wrote: > >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?) A couple of weeks ago, a colleague asked me to generate a patch against his tree in a hurry. I did cp -rl his-tree my-tree (which completed quickly), edited the two files that needed to be patched, then did diff -urp his-tree my-tree, which also completed quickly, as diff knows that if two files have the same inode, they don't need to be opened. > 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 Other people are of the opinion that the invention of the symbolic link was a huge mistake. Po-tato, pot-ato ... - 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
