Re: [tz] Posix time zone question

On 16/01/12 23:22, Petr Machata wrote:

I seem to recall that identical zones are hardlinked, so having two (or several) files like that only has an overhead of one inode. At least on Linux, I don't know how AIX works in this regard.

Nit picking: making a hard link to a file creates a directory entry and increments the link count in the inode so the overhead is a directory entry. Another way to think of this is that a file is defined by its inode and it has zero or more names: each name is a directory entry that maps the name to the inode number and the number of names is link count in the inode. I can't imagine that AIX would be any different to any other Unix in this regard. jch