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Post by cpach » Tue, Mar 05, 2024, 6:16 PM UTC

whartung wrote: post #36

AtlasBarfed wrote: post #34

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Main thing I've seen with hard links is that deletions delete the source file which about 90% of the time isn't what an end user wants

Only if its the last hard link. If nothing else, its a wee bit of insurance from deletion since no single link removal should remove the file. Anecdote, eons ago, we had a problem where the vendor needed to log in to the machine with the intent that they were going to upload some utilities, fix a problem, and then delete them. Before I let them in, I set up a script that constantly scanned the directory tree they wer…

Post by hosh » Thu, Mar 07, 2024, 7:47 PM UTC

cpuguy83 wrote: post #64

hosh wrote: post #25

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There's work in a new kublet replacement that moves things that would normally go into daemonset into systemd (or something like systemd). There's also a neat feature of podman that runs pods as systemd units, which is a nice intermediate step between a more traditional pet server and a full kubernetes cluster.

https://github.com/cpuguy83/containerd-shim-systemd-v1 to do this with containerd.