Re: [Gnu-arch-users] in-tree pristines fatally wounded (merge-fest etc)

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

>>>>> "Tom" == Tom Lord <address@hidden> writes:

    Tom> If you use hard-link trees, but somehow screw up in a way
    Tom> that corrupts your library, this will be detected and abort
    Tom> the relevent operation (modulo bugs or extremely improbable
    Tom> screw-ups :-).

Way cool!

I gather from the later discussion in your post that library corruption
is detected via the "inode hack".  Is that understanding correct?  Are
there other tests applied?


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