What are you talking about? It most definitely SAVES space and in my experience has absolutely no noticeable effect on performance. With regard to taking time to set up, I personally created a simple script that will create the necessary links and install the game to a new directory. I'm planning on trying out a filesystem extension that allows overlapping hard links so I can make a new install by just linking to a common directory and create overrides for things like addons and cfg. As it is, with my current servers sharing all the game content updating is a much faster procedure.
-Jeremy On Aug 4, 2012, at 10:09 PM, "Steven Hartland" <[email protected]> wrote: > This is a bad idea don't use symlinks it wastes time, space and reduces > performance. > > Regards > Steve > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jevgenij Timosenko" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Saturday, August 04, 2012 11:18 AM > Subject: Re: [hlds] Multiple Servers From Same SRCDS Installation = Bad? > > >> Sorry for insisting, but as pointed out in this wiki page: >> "If you are looking to save space or unify certain files that you know >> will not change, use symlinks." I assume we are free to symlink >> binaries, common plugins/*.smx . I agree that we should not symlink >> directories - at least I never did and avoid doing this, I just go >> through default installation and symlink files with some exceptions. >> This is quite interesting topic for me at the moment as I am working on >> automated symlink scripts and need to be certain what route will be >> better. After all, needing to update SM once rather than 20 times is >> amazing difference. Currently I have 2 gameservers running symlinks to >> single SM instance. Nice point out of gamedata, I will add it to >> exceptions but did not hit the issue with this yet. >> On Sat, 2012-08-04 at 00:49 +0200, Valentin G. wrote: >>> It is officially advised against doing that: >>> http://wiki.alliedmods.net/Multiple_or_Forked_Servers_(SourceMod) On Fri, >>> Aug 3, 2012 at 11:49 PM, Jevgenij Timosenko >>> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> What is wrong with having Sourcemod symlinked? >>> On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 12:59 PM, Valentin G. >>> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> > We use symlinking to run a bunch of servers off of the same >>> files. It works >>> > like a charm and allows every instance to have it's own >>> config and log >>> > directories no problem. >>> > This should work on Windows aswell. >>> > >>> > Just as a heads-up: SourceMod needs it's own copy for every >>> server you are >>> > running (if you're planning to use it). Otherwise horrible >>> things will >>> > happen :) >>> > >>> > >>> > On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 10:31 AM, Steven Hartland >>> <[email protected]> >>> > wrote: >>> >> >>> >> ----- Original Message ----- From: "PAL-18" >>> <[email protected]> >>> >> To: <[email protected]> >>> >> Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2012 9:20 AM >>> >> Subject: [hlds] Multiple Servers From Same SRCDS >>> Installation = Bad? >>> >> >>> >> >>> >> >>> >>> I've read this on lots of forums but no one seems to have >>> any concrete >>> >>> reason why this is bad: >>> >>> >>> >>> Is it true that running multiple servers from the same >>> SRCDS installation >>> >>> is bad? Does it cause stability problems? Performance >>> problems? Lag? File >>> >>> corruption? >>> >> >>> >> >>> >> No, you need to ensure that things are configured properly >>> but you won't >>> >> get >>> >> any stabilty problems. >>> >> >>> >> Performance should actually be better as it makes better >>> use of filesystem >>> >> cache >>> >> and dll cache in the OS. >>> >> >>> >> We use this to run hundreds of servers. >>> >> >>> >> The only issue we have are:- >>> >> 1. demo's don't allow you specify a location to save them >>> >> 2. configs need prefixing manually unlike other games which >>> have a "base >>> >> path" >>> >> command line option which makes everything very easy. >>> >> >>> >> We've raised these enhancements a few times here before as >>> it would things >>> >> so much easier if they where added :) >>> >> >>> >> Regards >>> >> Steve >>> >> >>> >> ================================================ >>> >> This e.mail is private and confidential between Multiplay >>> (UK) Ltd. and >>> >> the person or entity to whom it is addressed. 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