[Nottingham] Fun with "ln" (links)

[Andy Davidson]

On 17 Dec 2006, at 01:38, Martin wrote:

> Is it possible to use hard links to link to one copy of file data such
> that there are two or more independent file names and file attributes?

man cp   :-)

A hard link causes two 'file names' to point to the same inode, so  
they will share the same access-mode, c/a/mtimes, etc. if this is  
what you mean by attributes.

> This is for my own version of versioned backups.

cfengine or cvs, or svn.