[PATCH 7 of 7 V3] util: enable hardlink for copyfile

Augie Fackler raf at durin42.com
Sun Mar 12 14:53:29 EDT 2017


> On Mar 12, 2017, at 11:48, Mads Kiilerich <mads at kiilerich.com> wrote:
> 
> That might of course be because most users of repos on CIFS are Windows users. The problem is serious when it happens, but considering the non-Windows uncertainty, the small amount of non-Windows users using CIFS repos, and the negative impact on all non-Windows users, it might be justified to be less conservative for non-Windows.

I'm much more comfortable with a plan that just avoids hard links on all filesystem types we don't *know* will work, especially when it comes to network filesystems or FUSE filesystems.
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