----- "Christian Horn" chorn@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