> -----Original Message----- > From: fedora-legacy-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:fedora-legacy-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of > Jesse Keating > Sent: Thursday, March 04, 2004 11:37 AM > To: fedora-legacy-list@xxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: Date/time stamps on files to help with hardlinking > > > On Thursday 04 March 2004 11:33, Villalovos, John L wrote: > > Is there any possibility of getting the files which are identical to > > have the same date/time stamps on the repository? > > I could yet. However, I wonder, if the files are named the same, but > are different contents, but have the same timestamp, will hardlink > think they need to be linked? No. Hardlink looks at all of the following before doing a hardlink: * file mode/permissions * owner user id * owner group id * file size * modified time * and finally file contents must be equal. John
