[IPython-dev] symlinks vs. hard links for topic-oriented notebook directories

Thomas Kluyver takowl at gmail.com
Thu Jun 18 14:22:42 EDT 2015


On 18 June 2015 at 11:12, Matthias Bussonnier <bussonniermatthias at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Notebook atomic save might not play nice neither with symlink nor hardlink.


It should be OK with symlinks. The older implementation breaks hard links;
the newer one (coming in 4.0) should be OK in normal circumstances, but it
will break the hard link if saving fails, when it puts the copy of the
previous state back.

Thomas
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