cloning a drive [was: war story]

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 11:17:37AM -0400, James Knott wrote:
> Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> >I think that breaks hardlinks.  rsync -aHx works though.
> 
> I thought hard links were deprecated.

Ehm, no they are very very useful.

Things like rsnapshot would use an enourmous amount of disk space if it
wasn't for hardlinks.

Many build scripts use hardlink tree copies to make a build directory
without taking time or space for a copy, and yet still be able to apply
patches without messing up the original source.

Tons of uses.

-- 
Len Sorensen
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