What is the main advantage of creating links to a file
instead of copies of the file?

Answer Posted / v s

File is a resource. It can be needed by n no of processes at the same time. So to avoid inconsistency, to save memory and for the ease of checking/changing the access permissions, its better to keep files linked and not to make copies.

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