cloning a drive [was: war story]

[Christopher Browne]

On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 11:39 AM, James Knott <james.knott-bJEeYj9oJeDQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> Lennart Sorensen wrote:
>> Tons of uses.
>
> How does that differ from using symbolic links?  IIRC, hard links do not
> work between partitions.

Hard links mean that you're really, really, really referencing the
same thing.  And there's no need for software to be aware that it's a
symlink, as is frequently the case for symlinks.

It means that MH captures just one file with a mail message in it, and
might store that in multiple folders.  None of those locations need to
be considered authoritative - you delete from one spot, and that
merely removes a reference, which is true for *EVERY* reference.
Using symlinks would not be an improvement.
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