[ILUG] selective symlinks?

[Conor Daly]

On Sun, May 13, 2001 at 09:36:42PM +0100 or thereabouts, Liam Bedford wrote:
> On Sun, May 13, 2001 at 08:35:37PM +0100, Niall O Broin came forth with:
> > On Sun, May 13, 2001 at 06:52:55PM +0000, Conor Daly wrote:
> > 
> > > Is my only option to create the second
> > > directory and, within that directory, symlink all the identical files and
> > > just keep a copy of the different file?  I suspect so but I'd like to be
> > > sure.
> > 
> > That isn't even an option. CDs, even with RockRidge extensions, can't have
> > links, neither symbolic nor hard, so your only option is to have duplicate
> > sets of files. If this happens to take you past a CD's capacity, then you're
> > going to have to re-think what you're doing, otherwise you'll just have to
> > live with it
> > 
> I'm not sure about this... maybe it requires hacking of the iso filesystem,
> but it is entirely possible to make two inodes point to the same data...

mkisofs -J -r -o cd.iso /path/to/files/with/symlinks

produces a CDROM with symlinks in the appropriate places though doze cannot
use them.

Conor
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