You are an infrastructure engineer asked to do a very small-scale, but critical, performance-optimization…
You are an infrastructure engineer asked to do a very small-scale, but critical, performance-optimization…: a task in endless-terminals-rootless-apptainer: Endless Terminals 1K: rootless Apptainer release (Harbor dataset). Current situation Two byte-for-byte identical 256 KiB “golden” image files…
The task
Current situation * Two byte-for-byte identical 256 KiB “golden” image files exist: /home/user/images/primary/golden.img /home/user/images/backup/golden.img * Having two physical copies wastes I/O bandwidth during backups and consumes extra space. * The quickest fix is to replace the backup copy with a hard link that…