cloning a drive [was: war story]

William Park opengeometry-FFYn/CNdgSA at public.gmane.org
Wed Jul 27 18:49:46 UTC 2011


On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 02:33:57PM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 02:00:41PM -0400, William Park wrote:
> > One bad thing about hardlink is that, after updating it for a while
> > (say, compiling), you don't know which is new or old, or whether you did
> > 'mv' or 'cp', or someone is editing it somewhere else, etc.
> 
> And the symlink avoids this how?

I can do 'ls -l' and it shows where it's pointing to.  With hardlink, I
don't know where are the other files, and have to 'find -inum'.
-- 
William
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