Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 18 Oct 2001 13:18:46 +0200 | From | vda <> | Subject | Re: Making diff(1) of linux kernels faster |
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Thursday, October 18, 2001, 11:55:41 AM, Wojtek Pilorz <wpilorz@bdk.pl> wrote:
>> > > Be very careful not to modify a multi-linked file, or >> > > it will be damaged in all trees and won't be seen by
WP> To be sure it is not possible to modify original tree files, I do WP> chown -R root.root original_tree
WP> before copying it (via cp -lR) to new one, which will be modified with WP> whatever tools by me, logged in as a regular user. For those having root WP> access to a box this might be a useful way of preventing accidents ... WP> (this of course also assumes sane file permissions) WP> [...]
Everytime I see this 'hardlinked kernel tree' technique explained, I think about true COW fs where duplicate files are physically the same single file but users don't care about that - COW magic... No hardlink/vi/emacs/... tricks will be needed... -- Best regards, vda mailto:vda@port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua
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