Other OS patches

[Andrew Thompson]

Radoslaw Szkodzinski wrote:
>>I was thinking "copy" might be confused with a generic copy function, 
>>and you might end up editing a file on a *nix box that's hardlinked 
>>without knowing it.
> 
> 
> And in this case you don't lose anything, only the save will be slower.
> It is just shifting write time from copying to modification.
> How many files do you modify in a single commit?
> 
> The only possible loss is fragmentation, as the changed filess could have
> their contents allocated somwhere far from other files.

OK, I must have misunderstood how hardlinks work...

-- 
Andrew Thompson
http://aktzero.com/
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