Re: Signing causes to loose hardlinks.

[Dag Wieers <dag wieers com>]

On Mon, 25 Aug 2003, Jeff Johnson wrote:

> On Mon, Aug 25, 2003 at 11:12:08AM -0400, Jeff Johnson wrote:
> > 
> > Hmmm, what file system? Adding a suffix like that was not done by
> > rpm code afaik.
> 
> Hmmm, total brain fart on my part. Signing behavior wrto hardlinks
> was changed to avoid dataloss if/when ENOSPC was encountered while
> rewriting into the original file.
> 
> IIRC (and I sometimes forget, sigh) this was on a RHL 7.1 time frame.

Ok this makes sense. But couldn't you copy the original file and do the 
same thing on the hardlink, if it fails you won't have dataloss either.

At least this way you only loose the hardlinks when there's actually 
something going wrong (like ENOSPC), but you won't have any dataloss.

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