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		monocasa on Sept 10, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Don't defer Close() on writable files (2017) > , hard links break the tree structure, for one, so you get a DAG but not a tree. More than DAGs, but instead pretty arbitrary graphs since you can express cycles with hard links.

Sebb767 on Sept 12, 2024 [–]

> since you can express cycles with hard links

You can't if you only allow hard links to files.

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