On 02/24 11:09 , Les Mikesell wrote: > > That means there is no meaningful way of deleting an older > > backup, as the parent files may be lost, rendering future links useless? > > On unix filesystems, the contents are not removed until the last link is > deleted and no process has the file open.
looked at another way, a hardlink is just another name for the file, exactly like the first one it had. A hardlink is a directory index entry, in exactly the same way that the first name for the file was. -- Carl Soderstrom Systems Administrator Real-Time Enterprises www.real-time.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
