hooanon05@xxxxxxxxxxx writes:
> Goswin von Brederlow:
>> I can't think of anything that would break if hardlinks would have a
>> copy-on-write/copy-up semantic in delta-fs.
>
> What do you expect to the last "cat b"?
> (from my old mail)
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Since you don't care the inum, the hardlink will not work correctly. For
> instance,
> $ cd /base
> $ echo a > a
> $ ln a b
> $ cd /deltafs
> $ echo a >> a
> $ cat b
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
The wrong thing, just 'a'. But the question remains: What software
breaks? I can live with this shortcomming.
MfG
Goswin
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