cloning a drive [was: war story]

[James Knott]

Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> 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.
>
>    
How does that differ from using symbolic links?  IIRC, hard links do not 
work between partitions.

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