Joseph Kowalski wrote: > 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?
At least I do it - and many applications and users will do it, too. And a look at usr/src/pkgdefs/ shows many many hardlinks being used in the package system, too. > The common use of hardlinks went away > with AT&T supporting UNIX. Huh ? Could you please give further details on the relationship between AT&T and hardlinks ? ---- Bye, Roland -- __ . . __ (o.\ \/ /.o) roland.mainz at nrubsig.org \__\/\/__/ MPEG specialist, C&&JAVA&&Sun&&Unix programmer /O /==\ O\ TEL +49 641 7950090 (;O/ \/ \O;)
