> On 2 Aug 2016, at 19:55, Felipe Gasper <fel...@felipegasper.com> wrote: > > What would folks here think of storing the YumDB data as symlinks rather > than as files? > > The values that are short enough could be stored and read more easily and > quickly as symlinks than as files.
Dangling symlinks, which is what these would be, are treated as errors by some sysadmins and some (security) scanners. The future confusion is not worth the small performance gain. The performance gain is further eroded by filesystems storing small files (and symlinks) in the inode which makes them very quick to read. (If the system call overhead is an issue then you're better off using a different storage format altogether.) jch _______________________________________________ Yum-devel mailing list Yum-devel@lists.baseurl.org http://lists.baseurl.org/mailman/listinfo/yum-devel
