> What steps will reproduce the problem?

Issue the following commands on a file system where hard links are disabled:

    $ touch foo
    
    $ ln foo bar # just to check that hard links are disabled
    ln: failed to create hard link `bar' => `foo': Operation not permitted
    
    $ git init && git annex init
    
    $ git annex add .
    
    $ git annex uninit
    unannex foo 
    git-annex: [...]: createLink: permission denied (Operation not permitted)
    failed
    Deleted branch git-annex [...].

    $ echo $? # exit status of last command
    0
    
    $ ls foo
    ls: cannot access foo: No such file or directory


> What is the expected output? What do you see instead?

`git annex uninit` should abort and exit with a non-`0` return code. Instead, `git annex uninit` cleans up git-annex objects and exits with return code `0`.


> What version of git-annex are you using? On what operating system?

3.20120406 on Ubuntu 12.04.1.


> Please provide any additional information below.

git-annex should probably not be used on a file system where hard links are disabled.

However, if the user is not aware that he's using git-annex on such a filesystem, he will accidently delete his annexed files by issuing a `git annex uninit` command.

> git-annex needs a POSIX filesystem, which includes the ability to create
> hard links. The `git annex add` in the example above will fail
> trying to create a hard link with current versions.
> 
> I've made uninit fall back to a non-hard link mode. [[done]] --[[Joey]]