Quoting Ronan Waide <waider@waider.ie>:
> 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.
Using Niall's example - single set of files but >1 namespace, and suppose that
you want to delete some items from the set according to rules applied to the
namespaces.  With soft links you need an *extra* namespace the others refer to,
and after filtering the namespaces, you have to do a manual reference count to
decide what goes and what stays.  With hard links, you just unlink and deletion
is automatic.
Ronan.
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