Re: [Quilt-dev] Using quilt on file systems that do not support hardlinks

[Andreas Gruenbacher]

On Tuesday 29 April 2008 23:19:15 Quilt newbie. wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> We are trying to use quilt on systems which use AFS (Andrew file system)
> for home directories.  AFS is the chosen file system for our organization
> and thus we cannot change it.  The problem is that quilt uses hard links
> for some operations which fail on AFS when done across directories.  Does
> anyone know if we can modify quilt so that this is no longer a requirement
> to use hard links or explain why hard links are required?

Hardlinks are much more efficient than actual copying. Depending on the size 
of your patches, you may want to move to a local filesystem anyway. With some 
good luck, the attached patch will fix this problem, though -- could you 
please check?

Thanks,
Andreas

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