RPM needs to go on a diet.

[Jeff Johnson]

Kyrre Ness Sjobak wrote:

>tor, 17.02.2005 kl. 04.47 skrev Jeff Johnson:
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>>Kenneth Porter wrote:
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>>>--On Wednesday, February 16, 2005 1:27 PM +0200 Panu Matilainen 
>>><pmatilai at welho.com> wrote:
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>>>>The kernel package runs hardlink on /lib/modules/*/build/ in %post to
>>>>save space on FC2 and FC3, that's what's taking so long when installing
>>>>and removing kernels.
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>>>What does hardlink do? There appears to be no man page or other 
>>>documentation for it in kernel-utils.
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>>Hardlinks's identical files to save space.
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>Why are hardlinks chosen over symlinks here?
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Because symlinks behave differently than files in vcertain contexts, 
hardlinks are always the same as files.

Look there's a really simple answer to hardlinks and rpm and more:

Choose a kernel, use that.

Chose another kernel, use that, get rid of previous.

With one (or very few) kernels installed, hardlink and rpm performance 
is a non-issue.

73 de Jeff