CONFIG_FEATURE_PRESERVE_HARDLINKS

[Rich Felker]

On Thu, Mar 23, 2006 at 04:37:58PM -0700, Shaun Jackman wrote:
> Can someone please explain to me what
> CONFIG_FEATURE_PRESERVE_HARDLINKS does? coreutils/Config.in says,
> "Allow cp and mv to preserve hard links.", which I find a bit cryptic.

I think it means that if you recursively copy a tree containing 1000
hard links to a single 1k file, the copied tree will only take ~1k
instead of ~1M.

Rich