On Mon, 6 Mar 2006 19:54:28 +0000 "Stuart Herbert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | On 3/6/06, Alin Nastac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | > this has been discussed before. | > summary: tarballs could be used by more than one package. this way | > you'll manage to increase the disk space demands for our mirrors. | | And you can't hard-link the files into multiple directories | because ...?
...you have to find them first, and because there's a hard link limit on some filesystems, and because some filesystems don't do hardlinks. -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Wearer of the shiny hat) Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm
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