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Re: Constructing CD-ROM images



Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com> writes:

> Making a physical copy of the tree that I want to build isn't really
> an option (I've got disk space, but not necessarily that much :-). And
> using a symlink farm isn't really an option because some of the files
> in that list are already symlinks and I don't want them flattened.

Two options I can think of offhand....

* If they're all on the same disks, hardlink them

* If you're using a 2.4 kernel, create the tree with mount --bind.

-- 
Alan Shutko <ats@acm.org> - In a variety of flavors!
You can't judge a book by the way it wears its hair.



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