On 5 May 2020, at 15:27, Paul Gilmartin via tz <tz@iana.org> wrote:
On 2020-05-04, at 21:16:42, Philip Paeps wrote:
On 2020-05-05 11:00:18 (+0800), Andrew Gierth wrote:
Installing "backward" should create only links, and therefore have negligible effect on the size, the only real penalty being the extra directories and entries which should be only a few blocks at most.
It looks like we install the files rather than links. Or I've botched something on the test machine I looked at (which is not unlikely).
It varies.
On Linux I see numerous symlinks. (Doesn't a symlink use a disk block?)
Reasonably short symlinks are stored in the inode. Links, though, are just an entry in a directory so don't occupy any additional space unless you have a few thousand of them. jch
On MacOS, I see neither symlinks nor multiple directory links, but many duplicate files.
Disk space is cheap :) jch