>Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2008 11:41:02 -1000 >From: Joseph Kowalski <Joseph.Kowalski at sun.com> > >Garrett D'Amore wrote: >>> 4.3.4 Unison does not understand hard links. >> >> That's pretty unfortunate. I guess the necessary consequence of this >> is that Unison my dramatically increase the bandwidth needs and >> storage needs on the remote side. Imagine synchronizing a 4G ISO >> image, which also has hardlinks to other names -- instead of >> transferring and storing one 4G image, you are transferring and >> storing n * 4G. >Yea, but who actually does this? The common use of hardlinks went away >with AT&T supporting UNIX.
Joe, We do it all the time. Have you forgotten that the cp, ln, and mv utilities are linked? There are currently 90 links to /usr/bin/ksh93 on jurassic-x4600. I personally have hard links to several files under my home directory; they are not multi-gigabyte files, but the synchronization issue remain the same no matter how big the files are. - Don > >Another way to put this is, "if its important to Sun, file the P4/5 bug >to have Sun do the fix". This sounds a lot more serious to me than a P4/5 bug... > >- jek3
