Re: Hard links
Hi,
>>"Topi" == Topi Miettinen <Topi.Miettinen@ml.tele.fi> writes:
Topi> Ok, which do you think is more common operation, deleting
Topi> executables or copying them? Which would some sysadmin consider
Topi> a safe thing to do?
Being a less common (but still far from rare) operation should
not lead to a prohibition in policy. Secondly, I rarely do block
copies using cp. cp -a (or cp -d) is the more common means of copying
directories; as well as using the tar trick (which is how _I_ copy
directories generally).
I think that deleting and copying while preserving the the
structure and attributes of the original files is the more common
behaviour, at least for me. Copying directories while blithely
ignoring links is a deprecated operation, if you ask me. If I do not
know enough about my system to be aware of harlinks, I should be
penalized until I learn ;-)
I have no idea how samba fits into all this. (I would tend to
blame the lesser OS, but then I am biased).
>> > Should some text be appended to Policy, discouraging (or even
>> forbidding?) hard link use?
>>
>> No, both types of links have thier uses.
Topi> Then there is consistency issue. Package X uses symlinks but
Topi> package Y hard links. Why can't they use the same?
Because there is more than one way to do it? ;-). Frankly, I
would trust the maintainers to decide which flavour of the link to
use.
One must beware of micromanagement.
manoj
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