topic 'Hardlinked' nodes - would this be possible? in Alfresco Archive https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/hardlinked-nodes-would-this-be-possible/m-p/219455#M172585 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Hi friends,</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>an unholy idea popped up in my head after Coffee #2 this morning:</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Would it be possible to have two (or more) nodes of - say - type "cm:content" hardlinked to the same content in Repository, i.e having their cm:content property pointing to the same location in storage? This would be similar to the concept of a hardlink in Unix, where different name entries refer to the same inode. The idea came up when i thought about having a public copy of some document tree without copying each and every file. So technically this should be no problem to create two nodes with that same cm:content property, but i wonder if this would break Alfrescos housekeeping? I.e. what would happen if i delete one of the nodes? Or what would happen if i update one node's content? Anyone evr done this before? I know this is possible with AVM, but i have to stick with the "classic" store for now….&nbsp; :roll: </SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Cheers</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Gyro</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Wed, 05 May 2010 09:16:35 GMT gyro_gearless 2010-05-05T09:16:35Z 'Hardlinked' nodes - would this be possible? https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/hardlinked-nodes-would-this-be-possible/m-p/219455#M172585 Hi friends,an unholy idea popped up in my head after Coffee #2 this morning:Would it be possible to have two (or more) nodes of - say - type "cm:content" hardlinked to the same content in Repository, i.e having their cm:content property pointing to the same location in storage? This would be similar Wed, 05 May 2010 09:16:35 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/hardlinked-nodes-would-this-be-possible/m-p/219455#M172585 gyro_gearless 2010-05-05T09:16:35Z Re: 'Hardlinked' nodes - would this be possible? https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/hardlinked-nodes-would-this-be-possible/m-p/219456#M172586 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>This is what Alfresco does.</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>If you take a copy of a node to create a new node, the cm:content property still points to the same file in the backend. You can check this with the node browser.</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>This will be the case until you update content on either of the nodes, the one updated will now point to a new content file. So a copy operation in alfresco is just a db transaction, no content files are actually copied.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Wed, 05 May 2010 09:53:31 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/hardlinked-nodes-would-this-be-possible/m-p/219456#M172586 loftux 2010-05-05T09:53:31Z Re: 'Hardlinked' nodes - would this be possible? https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/hardlinked-nodes-would-this-be-possible/m-p/219457#M172587 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Ouch, it's THAT easy? Thanks a lot, looks like you cured some serious case of thinking way too complicated!&nbsp; :lol: </SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Cheers</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Gyro</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Wed, 05 May 2010 10:20:14 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/hardlinked-nodes-would-this-be-possible/m-p/219457#M172587 gyro_gearless 2010-05-05T10:20:14Z