[Yum] A couple of problems and RFE for Yum

[Rick Thomas]

seth vidal wrote:
> 
> > Another alternative is:
> >
> > 1) write to .newheaders
> > 2) HARD LINK headers to .oldheaders
> > 3) rename .newheaders to headers
> >
> > That's efficient, but requires hard links :)
> 
> which not all filesystems have, right.


Right.  Not all filesystems have hard links.  However, some do -- and in
that case, it would be very nice to provide *true* atomicity when
possible and cheap to do so.  Would a bugzilla on this be useful?

Rick