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From: Niall O Broin <niall@linux.ie>
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Subject: Re: [ILUG] How to copy some files
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On Fri, Jul 19, 2002 at 05:06:59PM +0100, Matthew French wrote:

> On that note: is there any real benefit to using hard links? I avoid them as
> a rule, and cannot think of any good reason to use them at the moment.

There are lots of benefits to using hard links, for all sorts of reasons. In
this case, they are being used to provide two quite different namespaces
for the same set of files.


Niall

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