----- "Christian Horn" <chorn(a)fluxcoil.net> wrote:
Hi
the hardlink-package also exists in rhel5u4 base repo.
Just played a bit bit it, wondering how other people use it?
The way i would find stuff useful is
a) i start hardlink for inspecting all my repo-directories
b) it creates hardlinks for duplicate files
c) as soon as i update one of the files i get a copy-on-write,
so the two files are no longer pointing to the same inode.
Parts a) and b) are how it currently works, not part c).
As soon as i modify the file at the inode both filenames point
to the same modified file. I know this is 'how it works' currently,
but for my cobbler-directory i cannot keep track of all hardlinked
files and dissolve this for myself bevore changing one of the
underlying files.
Do i miss something?
How do you people use hardlinks/cobbler, after fedding directories
to hardlink never touching those files for modification again?
I use hardlink to de-duplicate RPMs. RPMs that get matched together are of a
specific version, and I think these RPMs shouldn't ever change, a new version of this
RPM should simply appear.
Cheers,
Jasper