On Thu, 29 Jan 2004, Jesse Keating wrote: > 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. I would suggest using the hardlink program. It can be found on: path_to_your_favorite_redhat_mirror/redhat/mirror-tools/hardlink-1.2-1.i386.rpm HTH, .Tom
