On Thursday 16 September 2010 17:46, Harald Becker wrote:
>  Hi!
> 
> On installation busybox creates either hardlinks for every applet or a
> separate symlink for each applet, which means you you use around 200
> symlinks = inodes for this. Why don't you create a single symlink
> pointing to the absolute path of busybox and do hardlinks to the symlink
> for the remaining applets? Would be fine if busybox could install it in
> this way. You get the advantage of both types of linking. Flexibility
> (you can just replace your binary without reinstalling links) and space
> saving on filesystem (needs just 2 inodes, one for the binary and one
> for the symlink).
> 
> Comments?

You are free to create hard- or symlinks, or a combination of them
as you please, no one says you must use "busybox --install".

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vda
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