----- "Christian Horn" <[email protected]> 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.
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