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I'm starting to be convinced that symlinks are way more trouble than they're worth, especially in modern filesystems with reflink support. Reflink copies are b

I'm starting to be convinced that symlinks are way more trouble than they're worth, especially in modern filesystems with reflink support. Reflink copies are basically invisible, except when you need to meter disk usage. Symlinks and hardlinks add a billion corner cases to file handling.

yencabulator 5y ago
ZFS not having reflinks is still so sad. https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/issues/405 https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/issues/405