On 2007-09-03 09:12:18 +0200, Adrian Schröter wrote:
> > and it would be still broken. you can not assume that hardlinks between
> > different directories will _always_ work. the only place where you can
> > say "it wont break anything" are hardlinks in the same directory.
> > anything else can be on a different partition. that said i think the
> > best would be to patch fdupes and let it use hardlinks for any
> > duplicates in the same directory, but symlinks for anything else.
>
> That is right, but what happens acctually when you have different partitions ?
>
> Does rpm fail to install the package or does it create a full copy of the
> file
> on the other partition ?
>
> If it is the later, I think hardlinks are okay to use ..
it fails horribly.
taking into account the comment from bwalle about different meanings of
files in different subdirectories, i think the only valid thing is that
fdupes should only hardlink files in the same directory.
darix
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