Date: Fri, 9 Aug 2002 12:34:56 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: "Brian T. Schellenberger" <bts@babbleon.org> Cc: Peter Leftwich <Hostmaster@video2video.com>, Roman Neuhauser <neuhauser@bellavista.cz>, Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu>, Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk>, Jeff Jirsa <jeff@unixconsults.com>, John Bleichert <syborg@stny.rr.com>, FreeBSD LIST <FreeBSD-Questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Links (was: Is simplicity despised? WAS: Message-ID: <20020809030456.GJ39322@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <200208082254.22349.bts@babbleon.org> References: <20020808211101.G85736-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net> <200208082254.22349.bts@babbleon.org>
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On Thursday, 8 August 2002 at 22:54:22 -0400, Brian T. Schellenberger wrote: > On Thursday 08 August 2002 09:12 pm, Peter Leftwich wrote: >> On Thu, 8 Aug 2002, Roman Neuhauser wrote: >>> No, less is not hardlinked to more, nor is more hardlinked to less. >>> They're two names for the same file. >>> >>> So... Yes, you're right: less is really more. But at the same time, >>> more is less. >> >> This thread leaves one craving simplicity -- anyway, a question. >> >> So can you delete one and not have both disappear? I think it would be >> very quirky and perhaps rude of FreeBSD if a user did an `rm more` and less >> went with it! > > No, of course not. When you delete more, then usage count of the inode goes > from 2 to 1. If you delete less as well, then the disk space will actually > be freed. Unless it's open. In the kernel copy of an open inode, the link count effectively gets incremented by the number of opens. You don't see this with ls. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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