RPM needs to go on a diet.
Jeff Johnson
n3npq at nc.rr.com
Thu Feb 17 18:58:13 UTC 2005
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.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>What does hardlink do? There appears to be no man page or other
>>>documentation for it in kernel-utils.
>>>
>>>
>>Hardlinks's identical files to save space.
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>Why are hardlinks chosen over symlinks here?
>
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
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