8 Mar
2018
8 Mar
'18
4:11 p.m.
On Fri, 2018-03-09 at 07:59 +1100, Stephen Morris wrote:
It is my understanding that currently when a file copied to any location, a physical copy is not produced, the copy is a hardlink to the original file, until such time as one of the "copies" is changed and then both become physical files with one file reflecting the pre-change contents
What you describe here is linking, not copying. Copying always produces an apparently independent file ('Apparently' because on Copy-On-Write filesystems they two may actually share disk blocks until one of them changes, but that is *not* the same as linking).
poc