[Digikam-devel] [Bug 202094] Make use of symlinks

Michal Thoma michal at thoma.cz
Thu Aug 26 12:34:46 BST 2010


https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=202094





--- Comment #2 from Michal Thoma <michal thoma cz>  2010-08-26 13:34:44 ---
I'm not sure if I understand. You suggest to use hardlinks instead of symlinks,
is it?

I actually avoid using of hardlinks in my archive. The problem here is
especially with backing-up. On original file system where you created hardlink,
it's ok - it's two files entries and one data. Thought once you copy or rsync
your archive to backup storage - it will create two separate files and twice
more data. And that you definitely don't want. Hardlinks are great thing for
example in creating incremental/differential backups, though for the purpose of
archive structuring I believe symlink is better suited.

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