From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932923AbXGPQoy (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Jul 2007 12:44:54 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1760358AbXGPQoo (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Jul 2007 12:44:44 -0400 Received: from wr-out-0506.google.com ([64.233.184.230]:37591 "EHLO wr-out-0506.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1759073AbXGPQom (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Jul 2007 12:44:42 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=CIcbTq228KlL1n8zhMQuxAJPK0PIh+uDkTAITv3depTJsem81uT6+8Ry1sWPNvVFTws41OCa13rbNZCaFTKetyMrgDG/+aPvdSCvfmlENbEVPNJwEERW5RlsAGmJImxnaFTKad4Nd1sUrXBKHuVxGbfByMwvnu4kLyDpA2DxHJM= Message-ID: Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2007 22:14:41 +0530 From: "Satyam Sharma" To: "Al Boldi" Subject: Re: Hardlink Pitfalls (was: Patches for REALLY TINY 386 kernels) Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <200707161722.53203.a1426z@gawab.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <200707161722.53203.a1426z@gawab.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 7/16/07, 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 if hardlinks would actually do a CoW on modify, instead > of misleading the user into thinking he is modifying an independent file. "patch" already handles this correctly ... and backupcopy=auto,breakhardlink in vim (and something similar in other editors I presume) Satyam