[sllug-members]: M$ Breifcase done better in linux?

[Matt Warnock]

On Tue, 2009-06-23 at 22:12 +0000, Knight Walker wrote:

> Reorganize the repository so it's easier to use something like Unison to
> keep your local and remote copies up to date. What I have done in other
> situations is use hard links to keep multiple "copies" of files in
> different locations, one of which was basically a dumpster for
> ease-of-copying to a limited-capacity device (mp3 player, USB flash
> drive, etc).

Many thanks for this brilliant suggestion.  I usually avoid hard links
because they are so non-portable and seem difficult to backup
appropriately, etc, but this does seems like the perfect application of
them-- no data duplication, and solves the sparse-tree problem with
great elegance.  Because I rarely if ever use hard links, this did not
even occur to me.

That's why I love this OS.  So many ways to skin the cat, and always
someone with a better idea.  Thanks again.