[OE-core] [PATCH] e2fsprogs: configure with enable-symlink

[André Draszik]

On 15 Sep 2016 03:21, "Patrick Williams" <patrick at stwcx.xyz> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Sep 14, 2016 at 11:23:47PM +0200, Martin Jansa wrote:
> > It was also proposed and discussed some 15 months ago and it was
packaging
> > issue not handling hardlinks correctly:
> >
http://lists.openembedded.org/pipermail/openembedded-core/2015-April/103939.html
> >
> > I believe this was fixed then, but maybe it got broken again?
>
> Sorry, this is my fault.  I didn't think about hard-links.  I was just
> skimming the cpio extract for parts that could be trimmed out and
> noticed it.
>
>     $ ls -i *fsck*
>     19455718 e2fsck
>     19455671 fsck
>     19455718 fsck.ext2
>     19455718 fsck.ext3
>     19455718 fsck.ext4
>     19455718 fsck.ext4dev
>     19455679 fsck.minix
>     19455695 fsck.minix.util-linux
>     19455675 fsck.util-linux
>
> Is there a reason to prefer hardlinks over softlinks, for my own
> education?  My desktop system used softlinks for fsck.

Mine too. I don't really care, soft links are surely more obvious, though.

A.
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