Re: Hamm frozen, Slink created

[Raul Miller <rdm@test.legislate.com>]

Dale Scheetz <dwarf@polaris.net> wrote:
> What keeps mirror from recognizing the hardness of the link and
> reproducing the hard link in the local directory? I'm not suggesting
> that mirror is currently capable of this, just trying to figure out
> why it couldn't be.

There's no way to distinguish between a copied file and a hardlinked
file, without enhancing ftp.  Thus, all files must be downloaded
(and md5sums compared -- presumably you maintain a sorted list
of md5s during download) to implement this.  With symlinks, you
can avoid the redundant downloads.

-- 
Raul


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