Kyrre Ness Sjobak wrote:
tor, 17.02.2005 kl. 04.47 skrev Jeff Johnson:
>Kenneth Porter wrote:
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>>--On Wednesday, February 16, 2005 1:27 PM +0200 Panu Matilainen
>><pmatilai(a)welho.com> wrote:
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>>>The kernel package runs hardlink on /lib/modules/*/build/ in %post to
>>>save space on FC2 and FC3, that's what's taking so long when
installing
>>>and removing kernels.
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>>What does hardlink do? There appears to be no man page or other
>>documentation for it in kernel-utils.
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>Hardlinks's identical files to save space.
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Why are hardlinks chosen over symlinks here?
Because symlinks behave differently than files in vcertain contexts,
hardlinks are always the same as files.
Look there's a really simple answer to hardlinks and rpm and more:
Choose a kernel, use that.
Chose another kernel, use that, get rid of previous.
With one (or very few) kernels installed, hardlink and rpm performance
is a non-issue.
73 de Jeff