9 Nov
2015
9 Nov
'15
7:36 p.m.
On 11/09/2015 11:10 AM, Frank Cox wrote:
And if you aren't familiar with hard links, which rsync happily creates, they were certainly hard enough to wrap my head around, until I got it...
More than one filename for a particular file. What's difficult about that?
I think the difficult part is that so many people don't understand that EVERY regular file is a hard link. It doesn't mean "more than one" at all. A hard link is the association between a directory entry (filename) and an inode in the filesystem.