I just thought of another reason to not use prelink - incremental backups. Prelinking will change the binaries every time it is run thus triggering an unnecessarily large backup. Couple that with the fact that it will nullify the advantage gained from de-duplicating storage. For example, my backup solution is lsyncd triggering rsync going to a copyfs backed by zfs with deduplication. Multiply that increase in bandwidth/storage requirements with a potentially large number of machines and the problem becomes non-trivial. So, to summarize, the list of reasons not to use it thus far: - incremental backups - tripwire-like IDS - increased unnecessary flash wear - renders vserver hashify ineffective I accept that there may be cases where it is useful in some measure - I just don't think it should be on by default. Gordan _______________________________________________ arm mailing list arm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/arm
