From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Bryan Henderson <hbryan@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
arjan@infradead.org, bhalevy@panasas.com, jaharkes@cs.cmu.edu,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, matthew@wil.cx,
Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>,
mikulas@artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz, nfsv4@ietf.org
Subject: Re: Finding hardlinks
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2007 00:46:37 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070109234637.GC7798@elf.ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <OF9A86F0D7.D09330CD-ON8825725E.00815C88-8825725E.00824B9C@us.ibm.com>
On Tue 2007-01-09 15:43:14, Bryan Henderson wrote:
> >but you can get a large number of >1 linked
> >files, when you copy full directories with "cp -rl". Which I do a lot
> >when developing. I've done that a few times with the Linux tree.
>
> Can you shed some light on how you use this technique? (I.e. what does it
> do for you?)
>
> Many people are of the opinion that since the invention of symbolic links,
> multiple hard links to files have been more trouble than they're worth. I
> purged the last of them from my personal system years ago. This thread
> has been a good overview of the negative side of hardlinking; it would be
> good to see what the positives are.
git uses hardlinks heavily, AFAICT.
And no, you can't symlink two linux source trees against each other,
edit on both randomly, and expect result to work... can you? While
hardlinks + common editors were designed to enable that IIRC.
Pavel
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-01-09 23:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 127+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-12-20 9:03 Finding hardlinks Mikulas Patocka
2006-12-20 11:44 ` Miklos Szeredi
2006-12-20 16:36 ` Mikulas Patocka
2006-12-20 16:50 ` Miklos Szeredi
2006-12-20 19:54 ` Al Viro
2006-12-20 20:12 ` Mikulas Patocka
2006-12-31 15:02 ` Mikulas Patocka
2006-12-21 18:58 ` Jan Harkes
2006-12-21 23:49 ` Mikulas Patocka
2006-12-22 5:05 ` Jan Harkes
2006-12-23 10:18 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-12-23 14:00 ` Mikulas Patocka
2006-12-28 9:06 ` Benny Halevy
2006-12-28 10:05 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-12-28 15:24 ` Benny Halevy
2006-12-28 19:58 ` Miklos Szeredi
2006-12-29 0:51 ` Bryan Henderson
2007-01-02 19:15 ` Pavel Machek
2007-01-02 20:41 ` Miklos Szeredi
2007-01-02 20:50 ` Mikulas Patocka
2007-01-02 21:10 ` Miklos Szeredi
2007-01-02 21:37 ` Mikulas Patocka
2007-01-03 11:56 ` Pavel Machek
2007-01-03 12:33 ` Miklos Szeredi
2007-01-03 12:42 ` Pavel Machek
2007-01-11 23:43 ` Denis Vlasenko
2007-01-03 12:45 ` Martin Mares
2007-01-03 13:54 ` Matthew Wilcox
2007-01-03 15:51 ` Miklos Szeredi
2007-01-03 19:04 ` Mikulas Patocka
2007-01-04 22:59 ` Pavel Machek
2007-01-05 8:43 ` Miklos Szeredi
2007-01-05 13:12 ` Pavel Machek
2007-01-05 13:55 ` Miklos Szeredi
2007-01-05 14:08 ` Mikulas Patocka
2007-01-05 15:09 ` Miklos Szeredi
2007-01-05 15:15 ` Miklos Szeredi
2007-01-08 11:27 ` Pavel Machek
2007-01-08 5:57 ` Mikulas Patocka
2007-01-08 8:49 ` Miklos Szeredi
2007-01-08 11:29 ` Pavel Machek
2007-01-08 12:00 ` Miklos Szeredi
2007-01-08 13:26 ` Martin Mares
2007-01-08 13:39 ` Miklos Szeredi
2007-01-09 16:26 ` Steven Rostedt
2007-01-09 19:53 ` Frank van Maarseveen
2007-01-09 20:11 ` Steven Rostedt
2007-01-11 10:07 ` Pádraig Brady
2007-01-09 23:43 ` Bryan Henderson
2007-01-09 23:46 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2007-01-10 0:02 ` Matthew Wilcox
2007-01-10 17:30 ` Bryan Henderson
2007-01-10 17:38 ` Symbolic links vs hard links Bryan Henderson
2007-01-10 17:42 ` Matthew Wilcox
2007-01-11 20:03 ` Bryan Henderson
2007-01-10 19:33 ` Mikulas Patocka
2007-01-10 1:30 ` Finding hardlinks Steven Rostedt
2007-01-05 17:30 ` Frank van Maarseveen
2006-12-28 18:14 ` Mikulas Patocka
2006-12-29 10:34 ` Trond Myklebust
2006-12-30 1:04 ` Mikulas Patocka
2007-01-01 2:30 ` Nikita Danilov
2007-01-01 22:58 ` Mikulas Patocka
2007-01-01 23:05 ` Nikita Danilov
2007-01-01 23:22 ` Mikulas Patocka
2007-01-04 13:59 ` Nikita Danilov
2007-01-02 23:14 ` Trond Myklebust
2007-01-02 23:50 ` Mikulas Patocka
2006-12-28 13:22 ` Jeff Layton
2006-12-28 15:12 ` Benny Halevy
2006-12-28 15:54 ` Jeff Layton
2006-12-28 16:26 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-12-28 18:15 ` Bryan Henderson
2006-12-28 18:43 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-12-29 0:44 ` Bryan Henderson
2006-12-29 3:03 ` Phillip Lougher
2006-12-29 8:41 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-12-29 15:12 ` Phillip Lougher
2006-12-29 15:43 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-12-29 8:36 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-12-29 18:08 ` Bryan Henderson
2006-12-29 18:18 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-12-29 21:36 ` Bryan Henderson
2006-12-29 22:36 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-12-28 18:17 ` Mikulas Patocka
2006-12-28 20:07 ` Halevy, Benny
2006-12-29 10:28 ` [nfsv4] " Trond Myklebust
2006-12-31 21:25 ` Halevy, Benny
2007-01-02 23:21 ` Trond Myklebust
2007-01-03 12:35 ` Benny Halevy
2007-01-04 0:43 ` [nfsv4] " Trond Myklebust
2007-01-04 8:36 ` Trond Myklebust
2007-01-04 10:04 ` Benny Halevy
2007-01-04 10:47 ` [nfsv4] " Trond Myklebust
2007-01-04 18:12 ` Bryan Henderson
2007-01-04 18:26 ` Peter Staubach
2007-01-05 8:28 ` Benny Halevy
2007-01-05 10:29 ` Trond Myklebust
2007-01-05 16:40 ` Nicolas Williams
2007-01-05 16:56 ` Trond Myklebust
2007-01-06 7:44 ` Halevy, Benny
2007-01-10 13:04 ` Benny Halevy
2006-12-29 10:12 ` Trond Myklebust
2006-12-31 21:19 ` Halevy, Benny
2007-01-02 23:20 ` Trond Myklebust
2007-01-02 23:46 ` Trond Myklebust
2006-12-28 17:58 ` Bryan Henderson
2006-12-28 18:13 ` Shaya Potter
2006-12-28 22:50 ` Halevy, Benny
2007-01-11 23:35 ` Denis Vlasenko
2006-12-29 10:02 ` Pavel Machek
2007-01-01 22:47 ` Mikulas Patocka
2007-01-01 23:53 ` Jan Harkes
2007-01-02 0:04 ` Mikulas Patocka
2007-01-03 18:58 ` Frank van Maarseveen
2007-01-03 19:17 ` Mikulas Patocka
2007-01-03 19:26 ` Frank van Maarseveen
2007-01-03 19:31 ` Mikulas Patocka
2007-01-03 20:26 ` Frank van Maarseveen
2007-01-12 0:00 ` Denis Vlasenko
2007-01-03 22:30 ` Pavel Machek
2007-01-03 21:09 ` Bryan Henderson
2007-01-03 22:01 ` Frank van Maarseveen
2007-01-03 23:43 ` Mikulas Patocka
2007-01-04 0:12 ` Frank van Maarseveen
2007-01-08 6:19 ` Mikulas Patocka
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2007-01-05 23:54 ` Bodo Eggert
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