Re: Heavy creation and deletion of symlinks

2006-06-07 Thread Charles Swiger
On Jun 6, 2006, at 10:49 PM, Dag Rune Sneeggen wrote: So my question is; how does such activity affect the general health and operation of FreeBSD? It doesn't, really. The OS will happily deference the symlinks you create as needed. Also, the health of the harddrive(s) which will most

Re: Heavy creation and deletion of symlinks

2006-06-07 Thread Charles Swiger
On Jun 6, 2006, at 10:49 PM, Dag Rune Sneeggen wrote: So my question is; how does such activity affect the general health and operation of FreeBSD? It doesn't, really. The OS will happily deference the symlinks you create as needed. Also, the health of the harddrive(s) which will most

Heavy creation and deletion of symlinks

2006-06-06 Thread Dag Rune Sneeggen
I am currently planning an FTP-based service which requires a custom application to run which will create hundreds (if not thousands) of symlinks in various directories per hour. There will probably also be a cronjob running to delete symlinks periodically. The main purpose of the server will