Okay there should be no problem with sym linking in ext3 performance
wise. Mind you having three sym links can be confusing and it may be
better in the long term to use just one, its easier is it not?
AJ
adam wrote:
> Yup. I've learned my lesson wrt not taking defaults. Except LVM. Yuk.
>>> AJ McKee wrote:
>> Whats the filesystem type? ext3 by any chance?
>>>> AJ
>>>> adam wrote:
>>> AJ McKee wrote:
>>>> Its the filesystem thats doing the work there for you really if you
>>>> are
>>> It was more the filesystem I was wondering about, and it's
>>> performance with symbolic links.
>>>>>>> Is there a reason you need it to follow the symlinks or cannot just
>>>> have one, why three?
>>>>>>> Convenience, which is why I'm curious. If the filesytem performance
>>> is degraded, I'd switch n/p.
>>>>>> adam
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