[Bug 1128428] Re: linkhard option disappeared again

[Adam Porter]

It could cause dataloss across filesystems.  The reporter in question
used it across chroots and symlinks and filesystems and it caused
problems with /lib on his main fs.  For an average use case, like
deduplicating photos or music on a single filesystem, this is not an
issue, and hardlinks are very desirable.

A newer hardlinks patch set was posted at
<http://code.google.com/p/fdupes/issues/detail?id=8#c5>, but it has sat
there for almost two years.  It'd be very nice to have this feature
back.

There's another Debian bug about this feature's being re-added:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=284274

** Bug watch added: code.google.com/p/fdupes/issues #8
   http://code.google.com/p/fdupes/issues/detail?id=8

** Bug watch added: Debian Bug tracker #284274
   http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=284274

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Title:
  linkhard option disappeared again

Status in “fdupes” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in “fdupes” package in Debian:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  Hello,

  Version 1.50-PR2_4 removes --linkhard again, while it was (still)
  present in 1.50-PR2_3.

  While there may be various reasons to remove it there are most likely
  plenty of users quite happily using the option as-is, thus willing and
  wanting to keep it.

  Ubuntu should keep this option.

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