user-guide: large dataset: remove protected mention

https://github.com/iterative/dvc.org/pull/1058/files#r393328615
iterative · Mar 17, 2020 · 14ecc26 · 14ecc26
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@@ -38,10 +38,9 @@ Symbolic links, and Reflinks in more recent systems. While reflinks bring all
 the benefits and none of the worries, they're not commonly supported in most
 platforms yet. Hard/soft links optimize **speed** and **space** in the file
 system, but may break your workflow since updating hard/sym-linked files tracked
-by DVC in the <abbr>workspace</abbr> causes <abbr>cache</abbr> corruption. These
-2 link types thus require using cache **protected mode** (see the
-`cache.protected` config option in `dvc config cache`), which is enabled
-by-default and makes your files read-only. Finally, a 4th "linking" alternative
+by DVC in the <abbr>workspace</abbr> causes <abbr>cache</abbr> corruption. To
+protect against that, DVC makes hard/soft links read-only, forcing the user to
+use `dvc unprotect` before modifying them. Finally, a 4th "linking" alternative
 is to actually copy files from/to the cache, which is safe but inefficient –
 especially for large files (several GBs or more).
 
@@ -54,12 +53,12 @@ especially for large files (several GBs or more).
 
 File link type benefits summary:
 
-| `cache.type` | speed | space | no protected mode |
-| ------------ | ----- | ----- | ----------------- |
-| `reflink`    | x     | x     | x                 |
-| `hardlink`   | x     | x     |                   |
-| `symlink`    | x     | x     |                   |
-| `copy`       |       |       | x                 |
+| `cache.type` | speed | space | no read-only links |
+| ------------ | ----- | ----- | ------------------ |
+| `reflink`    | x     | x     | x                  |
+| `hardlink`   | x     | x     |                    |
+| `symlink`    | x     | x     |                    |
+| `copy`       |       |       | x                  |
 
 Each file linking method is further detailed below, in function of their
 efficiency: