[tex-live] Stable vs. Unstable/Testing Update Repositories?
Reinhard Kotucha
reinhard.kotucha at web.de
Thu Feb 25 01:20:38 CET 2010
On 24 February 2010 C.M. Connelly wrote:
> "MP" == Manuel Pégourié-Gonnard <mpg at elzevir.fr>
>
> MP> We're currently discussing the options internally for
> MP> maintaining multiple releases without doubling or so the
> MP> space occupied by TeX Live on CTAN mirrors. One of the
> MP> options discussed is using links (though we were thinking
> MP> symlinks rather than hardlinks), if the CTAN admins think
> MP> it can properly work with all mirrors.
>
> There are a few key advantages of hard links over symlinks for
> mirroring.
There is one advantage you didn't mention: If you remove the file,
you end up with a dangling symlink. If you are using hardlinks, you
can remove as many directory entries as you want. The file is deleted
when no directory entry points to the file/inode anymore.
I also think that hard links are advantageous.
Regards,
Reinhard
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