Aaron Wolf

For files that haven't changed, that makes sense. But, for the simplest case, what happens if there are two snapshots and I delete the *first* one? I assume in that...

@colinl so you are saying that the very first snapshot is itself made of hard links and the file contents are effectively separate? And that when any snapshot is deleted,...

So, the point being that data is on a storage device regardless of whether there are hard links, but the existence of *any* hard links within any particular media device...

Right, you're confirming what I wrote above. > There is no such thing as a file without any hard links. I didn't say that. I referenced "data" as in the...

> If/when the last card pointing to a book is removed, then the librarian (the filesystem algorithms) also discards the book That is actually intuitive to me, and that's where...

Okay, so besides my edification, it seems reasonable to ask if the BIT docs clarify that *even though* each snapshot is incremental (fast backups, only needs to copy changed files)...