[plug] hard links in the OS files

[Craig Ringer]

Michael Holland wrote:
> Is it important to keep the hard links in Linux?
> I just noticed that when I moved to a new hard disk, i lost them.
> I did a dump/restore, I think. Should have just "cp -a".
> Is there any consequence, apart from a little extra disk usage?

Not normally, no. There are occasional specialised applications that 
rely on hard links, but I've never run into one in practise.

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Craig Ringer