Satyam Sharma wrote: > Or just "cp -al" to create multiple trees at (almost) no disk cost > that won't interfere with each other in any way, and makes the > development process / generating patchsets trifle easier as well ...
That would be correct if hardlinks would actually do a CoW on modify, instead of misleading the user into thinking he is modifying an independent file. Moral of the story: try to avoid hardlinks as much as possible! Thanks! -- Al - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
