Re: Hard links
Topi Miettinen <Topi.Miettinen@ml.tele.fi> writes:
> Locating hard links with only ls -li or find -inum is inhuman task,
> whereas any graphical file browser can easily show symlinks with
> different icon, for example (I don't use them, so I don't know
> whether they actually do so).
When do you need to know it's a hard link from a graphical browser?
Or rather what would that information be good for? Note that the
*only* time I can think of where you should care something's a hard
link is when you're trying to copy or backup a directory, and then you
should be using a tool smart enough to know how to handle it (see
below).
> Ok, which do you think is more common operation, deleting executables or
> copying them? Which would some sysadmin consider a safe thing to do?
Why wouldn't you be using tar or "cp -a" for the copy? Presumably you
want to preserve permissions and ownership, and using these methods
will also preserve the hardlinks.
> Then there is consistency issue. Package X uses symlinks but package
> Y hard links.
What difference does this make?
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