From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Function to find symlink target Date: Tue, 31 May 2022 14:16:25 +0200 Message-ID: <87k0a199t2.fsf@dataswamp.org> References: <871qwjzqg5.fsf@web.de> <87o7zn65jp.fsf@dataswamp.org> <87ilpvd5s1.fsf@web.de> <87bkvn9x12.fsf@dataswamp.org> <87czg35n3g.fsf@web.de> <871qwif973.fsf@web.de> <87fskv9gm8.fsf@dataswamp.org> <87pmjxoev5.fsf@dataswamp.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="4488"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:uN9xGqB6mPZrP+A64FEQplCywnQ= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue May 31 14:32:09 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1nw12f-0000vT-Nt for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 31 May 2022 14:32:09 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49478 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nw12d-0000gk-Og for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 31 May 2022 08:32:07 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:38398) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nw0ne-0006PH-EN for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 31 May 2022 08:16:41 -0400 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]:57038) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nw0nc-00047Y-Q9 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 31 May 2022 08:16:38 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1nw0nY-00018d-Mt for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 31 May 2022 14:16:32 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Mail-Copies-To: never Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: -16 X-Spam_score: -1.7 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.7 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.249, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001, T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE=-0.01 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:137474 Archived-At: Jean Louis wrote: >>> Let us say there are 100 websites, there is repository of >>> pictures, videos, files on computer, but one part must be >>> on websites too, then there is website repository on >>> a local computer. Images and files are then linked to >>> website repository on local computer in their >>> corresponding locations, this saving space, then rsync >>> uploads symlinks as real files to web server. >>> >>> In this case symlinks spare huge hard disk space. >> >> Actually a file (size F) and a symlink (size S and 0 < S) >> takes F + S while just the file takes F. > > Don't know about those calculations. My symlinks point to > PDF files and images, and the order of files in a website > directory has to be replicated on one or more web servers. A very common use case ... > That is reason why I keep the order on local computer. *one > Symlinks greatly help in that case, and do spare the hard > disk space. Compared to duplicating all the files physically on the local machine? -- underground experts united https://dataswamp.org/~incal