Hey all,
So using cp -lr is a very effective way to speed up and save space when
patching very large codetrees, but I'm interested in what's going on
beneath.
When patch changes a hard linked file, it relinks it so that it becomes a
new file (reference to an inode). I'm assuming it does this explicitly,
because hard links would be pretty useless if it didn't. :-)
Is there a shortcut to doing this all the time, however? I'd like to keep
two trees of files, one owned as root, and one as a user, and have the
user's files relinked if he/she changes anything. Doable? Can it be done
with chattr options, or can it only be done via the software?
Thanks,
- Jeff
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