On Mon, 16 July 2007 22:14:41 +0530, Satyam Sharma wrote: > 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) Yet even a single program failing to break the link will leave you with a mess to sort out. The only place that can ensure to always break the link is the kernel. Which is why I wrote the cowlink patches some years back. The still need a lot of love to be merge-ready. But I do use them on a daily basis. Jörn -- Joern's library part 2: http://www.art.net/~hopkins/Don/unix-haters/tirix/embarrassing-memo.html - 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
