Re: backup method

[Miles Bader]

On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 11:25:10 -0700, Kevin Rodgers <address@hidden> wrote:
> Luc Teirlinck wrote:
> > Then of course there is the silent breaking of hard links.
> 
> Which is why backup-by-copying-when-linked should be t by default.

Um, the "silent breaking of hard links" is in many case a _good thing_
-- it's quite common to use hard-link trees to "snapshot" a
directories, and depend on your editor to snap the link if you change
a file.

It would be a nasty, nasty, shock (as in, lots of corrupted files) to
those people who depend on this feature to have the default suddenly
change out from under them!

-Miles
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