----- "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.

Cheers,
Jasper
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