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Hardlinks are hardly a source of complexity .. or is that 'difficulty'

Hardlinks are hardly a source of complexity .. or is that 'difficulty'

Posted Dec 11, 2010 16:06 UTC (Sat) by MrWim (subscriber, #47432)
In reply to: Hardlinks are hardly a source of complexity .. or is that 'difficulty' by neilbrown
Parent article: Ghosts of Unix past, part 4: High-maintenance designs

It seems that what is really wanted in this case is a copy-on-write as discussed in LWN articles COW Links (29/3/2004) and The two sides of reflink()


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