Dimitrios Apostolou wrote:
$ touch blah
$ ln -s blah link_to_blah
$ cp --dereference link_to_blah blah2
The result is that "blah" and "blah2" have different inode!
Of course, and that's what one would expect, cp makes copies by default, and the
copies have a different inode from the original.
I was referring to something like this:
touch blah
ln -s blah link_to_blah
mkdir dir
cp -a --dereference blah link_to_blah dir
This creates two hard links in dir, to the same new file. ("-a" attempts to
make "cp" act as much like "tar" as it can.)
