Re: RH rpms, and installing using hardlinks vs symlinks

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On 9/3/18 6:13 am, Todd Zullinger wrote:
Robert P. J. Day wrote:
... ah, so the replacement of those cross-directory hardlinks with
symlinks will happen in F28, is that what you're saying?
The change will be in F28, yes.  The few files in /usr/bin
are simply copied, not symlinked.  Within /usr/bin, the
identical files are hardlinked to each other.

I haven't been keeping up with this thread prior to now so I apologize if I'm covering old ground or have misinterpreted what this thread is saying. It is my understanding that currently when a file copied to any location, a physical copy is not produced, the copy is a hardlink to the original file, until such time as one of the "copies" is changed and then both become physical files with one file reflecting the pre-change contents, whereas the same doesn't happen with symlinks. Are you saying that with F28 hardlinks are going to be replaced by symlinks, so that the hardlink functionality no longer works, or are you saying that symlink functionality is being changed to function the same as hardlinks, hence we lose the existing symlink functionality?


regards,

Steve



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