Date/time stamps on files to help with hardlinking

Charles R. Anderson cra at WPI.EDU
Fri Mar 5 00:08:41 UTC 2004


On Thu, Mar 04, 2004 at 03:10:05PM -0800, Jesse Keating wrote:
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> Most the files that could be hardlinked were hardlinked.  It was just a 
> few of them, and some of the legacy files that weren't.  The entire 
> tree is now hardlinked, and yum/apt metadata is being re-generated 
> (just in case).  The tree is still taking roughly 13G of space though 
> (unless df counts hardlinked files twice).

I was under the impression that identical 7.2 and 7.3 src.rpm's were
being built into separate binary rpm's to put in each directory.  I
don't see why this would be necessary, though.  Red Hat has released
identical errata for 7.2 and 7.3--the MD5SUMS were identical.





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