I agree that symlinks have a few advantages, including discoverability
and in the fact that they can cross filesystems, but they do have the
disadvantage that they are not symmetrical: you need to pick one
location to remain a regular file and link the others to it, and in the
general case it may not be obvious how to do that sensibly and
consistently. A collection of hardlinks are all co-equal, with no need
to choose a “canonical” path.
On 7/28/25 8:33 AM, Neal Gompa wrote:
On Mon, Jul 28, 2025 at 8:20 AM Chris Adams <li...@cmadams.net> wrote:
Once upon a time, Michal Schmidt <mschm...@redhat.com> said:
On Sat, Jul 26, 2025 at 10:38 AM Pavel Raiskup <prais...@redhat.com> wrote:
I'd rather we show extra care towards Fedora developers who are still
using Fedora, if there are any. If we make Fedora development overly
complicated compared to working in a completely different environment or
distro, people may migrate (I'd argue that's not good for Fedora).
You have thousands or tens of thousands of hardlinked files in /usr today.
See:
find /usr -links +1 -type f
Not that I disagree with you... but all files have 1 link (themselves),
so that doesn't do what you thought it does. You mean "+2", not "+1".
The only real problem with hardlinks is that you can't partition them
out across volumes. And some filesystems aren't hardlink-safe.
I'm sure the proposers plan to ensure all the valid storage
configurations supported by Anaconda can handle this.
Personally, I would have used symlinks instead of hardlinks, since
they are more obvious and more compatible across different storage
configurations.
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