Re: RH rpms, and installing using hardlinks vs symlinks

[Tim]

On Sat, 2018-03-10 at 09:57 +1100, Stephen Morris wrote:
> No, what I was mentioning here is what I have read as standard linux 
> functionality with copying, when a file is copied, and it doesn't
> matter where to, rather than create a 2nd copy of the file, the
> "copy" is created as a hard link to the original file, for storage
> efficiency, and then when one of the files is updated the hardlink is
> broken and both files become physical.

Considering all the grinding noises my hard drive makes if I copy a
file, I wouldn't have said it works in that way.