Re:What's with this anti-directory structure movement?
by gizmo686 on Friday July 27, 2012 @10:10AM
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>I have a really hard time explaining that hardlinks are not shortcuts even to programmers.
While the distinction is important to programmers and sysadmins, the average end-user treats shortcuts as if they were hard links, it would not make the UI more complicated to change the 'make link' behavior to hard-link instead of sym-link.
Re:What's with this anti-directory structure movement?
by sirn on Friday July 27, 2012 @01:26PM
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Yes it won't, but when you have to introduce the concept of multiple files could point to the exactly same data on the hard drive and no, it's not a "copy" of that file, it's rather mind-blowing.
This is the main difference between hard links and shortcuts. The above scenario won't likely to happen with hard links (because they're actual files). As with jcromartie, I have a really hard time explaining that hardlinks are not shortcuts even to programmers.
I can't imagine my dad (hell, even my brother) will ever going to understand hardlinks. He don't even understand how shortcuts works (only how to use it).