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 - 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
