> On Apr 10, 2015, at 8:01 AM, Mark Hatle <[email protected]> wrote: > > I'm a bit confused by this. Why is symlink saving space over hardlink? > > The hardlinked items should retain their hard link status through the > packaging > and into the image. If not, it sounds like there is a bug in the packaging > mechanism you are using (opkg, deb, rpm?) and/or the image generation. > > And just because 'ls' shows the sizes, the fact they are hard linked means > they're not taking up duplicate space. > > I know there is a lot more then just e2fsprogs that does a hard link vs > symlinks > for various command, which is why I'm trying to understand where we might > have a > problem. >
This patch improves the recipe and problems with packaging hard links is orthogonal to it. this patch should go in regardless -- _______________________________________________ Openembedded-core mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openembedded.org/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core
