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On Mon, 6 Mar 2006 19:54:28 +0000 "Stuart Herbert" |
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<stuart.herbert@×××××.com> wrote: |
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| On 3/6/06, Alin Nastac <mrness@g.o> wrote: |
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| > this has been discussed before. |
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| > summary: tarballs could be used by more than one package. this way |
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| > you'll manage to increase the disk space demands for our mirrors. |
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| And you can't hard-link the files into multiple directories |
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| because ...? |
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...you have to find them first, and because there's a hard link limit |
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on some filesystems, and because some filesystems don't do hardlinks. |
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Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Wearer of the shiny hat) |
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Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org |
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