Re: Heaps of duplicated files between woody and potato
Michael Neuffer wrote:
>
> Can anybody tell me wether there is any sane reason
> why humongous amounts of files have been duplicated
> from potato to woody ? It would have been much better
> to just symlink them from woody to potato.
>
> It strikes me that this is an uneccessary waste of
> diskspace and bandwith of mirrors.
>
> For people normal connections or analog leased lines
> or limited diskspace it is an enormous burden that is
> unecessarily put on them.
I beleive those are hard links, but not all mirrors are set up to deal with
hard links (and you can't if you mirror over ftp, just rsync).
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