alt Hacker NewsHardlinks are the wrong abstraction. You modify one copy and it changes on all linked paths. You want reflinks instead.
edit: spellchecker corrected reflinks, this is what I meant.
Hardlinks are the wrong abstraction. You modify one copy and it changes on all linked paths. You want reflinks instead.
edit: spellchecker corrected reflinks, this is what I meant.
I believe you're wrong here. If you modify a hardlinked file, the FS will create new inodes under the hood, leaving existing ones intact. So it's like CoW. At least on ext4.
// Didn't double-check, but I've held this belief for over decade now, would be surprised to be proven wrong