On Sun, Sep 7, 2014 at 1:14 PM, René J.V. <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sunday September 07 2014 10:24:09 Brandon Allbery wrote: > > from overwriting a file (you'd want to break the hardlink first if you > only > > want it to affect that backup, and for that-backup-and-forward you'd need > > to re-hardlink the later backups with the original inode number). > > A mv (rename) shouldn't change the inode, if at least the operation works > the same way as on a more standard FS (without directory hardlinks :)) > Yes, I was saying any operation other than actually writing the file should be safe, and then saying what would be needed in the actually-writing-the-file case to make it safe. -- brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates [email protected] [email protected] unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonad http://sinenomine.net
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