Re: Hardlink Pitfalls (was: Patches for REALLY TINY 386 kernels)

2007-07-17 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Mon, 16 Jul 2007, Al Boldi wrote: > 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 i

Re: Hardlink Pitfalls (was: Patches for REALLY TINY 386 kernels)

2007-07-16 Thread Jörn Engel
On Mon, 16 July 2007 20:23:04 +0300, Al Boldi wrote: > Jörn Engel wrote: > > > The only place that can ensure to always break the > > link is the kernel. Which is why I wrote the cowlink patches some years > > back. > > Can you post a patch against 2.6.22? I can and probably will. > > The stil

Re: Hardlink Pitfalls (was: Patches for REALLY TINY 386 kernels)

2007-07-16 Thread Al Boldi
Jörn Engel wrote: > On Mon, 16 July 2007 22:14:41 +0530, Satyam Sharma wrote: > > On 7/16/07, Al Boldi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >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

Re: Hardlink Pitfalls (was: Patches for REALLY TINY 386 kernels)

2007-07-16 Thread Jörn Engel
On Mon, 16 July 2007 22:14:41 +0530, Satyam Sharma wrote: > On 7/16/07, Al Boldi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >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 /

Re: Hardlink Pitfalls (was: Patches for REALLY TINY 386 kernels)

2007-07-16 Thread Satyam Sharma
On 7/16/07, Al Boldi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 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

Hardlink Pitfalls (was: Patches for REALLY TINY 386 kernels)

2007-07-16 Thread Al Boldi
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, in