alexa lake 🕊️🌿 (nprofile…sldm)
The only problem with hard links is that it's never obvious they are hard links and modifying it in one place modifies it everywhere. But then there are times where that is exactly what you want.
The cool thing is that advanced file systems like bfrfs have a hard link-like feature that is a copy-on-write, where a file can be in two places at the same time, and yet if you modify it in one place, that version becomes separate from the original.
It's really good for de-duplication, where you can have a messy pile of files just shoved in one place, and you haven't had the time to actually go and weed out duplicates. You can run a program to find the duplicates for you, and de-duplicate them as a copy-on-write type of link ( I forget the correct terminology), where they don't take up any more space, but if you modify one of them, it becomes its own separate file.
R.L. Dane :Debian: :OpenBSD: 🍵 /
npub185…t8tc6
2025-04-10 04:56:04
in reply to nevent1q…hcfn
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2025-04-10 04:56:04Event JSON
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