On 2016-10-17 11:13, Alexander Thomas wrote: > Because I don't know what was the use case for the submitter of that > hard-linking patch, it is safest to preserve it, but make it optional > with a new --hard-link switch that is only relevant together with > --existing-chroot. This is also very easy to implement, it only
Looks ok from my point, maybe the documentation of --existing-chroot could mention the new option. Regarding your use case: why don't you use chroot tarballs? IMO, tar xfz might be faster than cp -a. Andreas
