From: Greg Ungerer (gerg@snapgear.com)
Date: Tue Oct 01 2002 - 20:51:40 EDT
David McCullough wrote: > Jivin Uwe Beutin lays it down ... >>On Tue, 1 Oct 2002, David McCullough wrote: >>>You will see where is uses symlinks for JFFS, just make it always do that, >>>or better still, work out why you cannot use hardlinks and modify the >>>script to detect that situation and send us a patch ;-) >> >>Um... I just though that this takes up too much space on the fs. What is >>the advantage of hardlinks against soft links in this case?! > > > Hardlinks should take slightly less space than symlinks as hardlinks point > directly at the inode while symlinks store the name of the target file, > taking a few bytes extra ;-) Just remember that JFFS does not support hard links... Regards Greg ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Greg Ungerer -- Chief Software Wizard EMAIL: gerg@snapgear.com SnapGear Pty Ltd PHONE: +61 7 3435 2888 825 Stanley St, FAX: +61 7 3891 3630 Woolloongabba, QLD, 4102, Australia WEB: www.SnapGear.com This message resent by the uclinux-dev@uclinux.org list server http://www.uClinux.org/
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