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From: Ronan Waide <waider@waider.ie>
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On July 19, niall@linux.ie said:
> 
> There are lots of benefits to using hard links, for all sorts of reasons. In

"...but there is insufficient room in the margin of this email to
 describe them..." :)

> this case, they are being used to provide two quite different namespaces
> for the same set of files.

Sure, but soft links would do the same. To be honest, I'm trying to
think of a useful use of hard links right now, and I'm a little
stumped. There's gotta be some benefit that I'm missing that's
immediately obvious to everyone.

Cheers,
Waider.
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