From: Olivier Poitrey (olivier_at_pas-tres.net)
Date: Wed 13 Oct 2004 - 18:01:04 BST
Jörn Engel <joern_at_wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> writes:
> New-variant cowlinks are closer to symlinks than anything else.
> Like symlinks they allocate an extra inode per link. Like fast
> symlinks for ext[23] they store the link information in the inode
> itself.
>
> Still, don't think of it as a symlink, it's not. Close, but
> different.
I think it's a very good idea, but do you know if mmaping several
cow-linked files that way would give us the same benefits than
(sym)links which is to have it only once into memory?
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