Rationale for hardlink in kernel postinstall scriplet
Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer
ml2news at optonline.net
Tue Jan 18 15:40:59 UTC 2005
davej at redhat.com (Dave Jones) writes:
> intended. It hardlinks all files that are identical to one copy.
> This saves a *lot* of diskspace, especially when you have several
> kernels installed.
Wouldn't it be doable to only modify files that are under directories owned
by kernel modules (ala don't touch any /lib/modules/* directories that aren't
in the rpm database)? We could match FC3 or rpm -qf /lib/modules/*
Thoughts?
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Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer
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