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A bit off topic, but Windows needs this baked in. And Windows needs hard links to update ALL links when the underlying file changes, because right now if you up
by chris_wot 10y ago
A bit off topic, but Windows needs this baked in. And Windows needs hard links to update ALL links when the underlying file changes, because right now if you update a file from one hardlinked file the other hardlinked files don't change their metadata.
Quite ridiculous, it's not like this hasn't been something Unix has been doing since almost the beginning!
Right now we have a ridiculous situation where the winsxs folder gets out of sync with the c:\windows\system32 folder. Nothing treeview or any other utility can you daily do about it either. And until recently that winsxs store was holding gigabytes of old and useless updates, because Microsoft's updates never removes these components (recently - last year some time I think- they updated the disk cleanup GUI to delete this stuff from Windows 7 upwards. IMO they recognised a big stuff up caused by their product management team's decision, which in turn caused this unheralded enhancement).