Summary: | Better keepdir | ||
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Product: | Portage Development | Reporter: | Kaiting Chen <Phoenixfire159> |
Component: | Core | Assignee: | Portage team <dev-portage> |
Status: | RESOLVED DUPLICATE | ||
Severity: | normal | ||
Priority: | High | ||
Version: | unspecified | ||
Hardware: | All | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
Whiteboard: | |||
Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- |
Description
Kaiting Chen
2004-11-14 16:05:09 UTC
This is definitely not a duplicate of 16162. I am trying to say that portage needs a better way of keeping directories. By the way, I just found another reason why the current way is bad. Even though the .keep files are zero-byte, they still fill up an inode. Depending on how your filesystem is formatted, it still takes up a little space on your hard drive, (4k on mine). Even though that is not very much space, it shows that the current way is flawed. "This is definitely not a duplicate of 16162. I am trying to say that portage needs a better way of keeping directories. By the way, I just found another reason why the current way is bad." And 16162 is about portage's md5/mtime solution sucking, requiring the .keepdir hack. Closing. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 16162 *** |