On Thursday 29 January 2004 08:48, Tom Diehl wrote: > Do you have 7.2, 7.3, 8.0, and 9 on the master?? If so hardlinking > saves an enormous amount of space. Try running hardlink over the > directory tree and see. > > Do you really think that all of the rpms in 7.2, 7.3 and 8.0 are > unique?? I can tell you that for sure they are not. Even Red Hat uses > hardlink. When they get too far behind with it the mirror admins > complain because of the wasted space. Fortunately they are really > good at keeping up. I have 7.2-8.0 currently, no 9 yet. DO you have a method for 100% assurance that the files are exactly the same and to hardlink them, w/out doing sha1's of every single file trying to compare them etc, etc... Same names aren't nearly enough evidence. -- Jesse Keating RHCE (geek.j2solutions.net) Fedora Legacy Team (www.fedoralegacy.org) Mondo DevTeam (www.mondorescue.org) GPG Public Key (geek.j2solutions.net/jkeating.j2solutions.pub) Was I helpful? Let others know: http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=jkeating
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