scripts/cp-noerror: Try and use hardlinks if possible
From: Richard Purdie <hidden>
Date: 2012-10-11 12:50:04
Subsystem:
the rest · Maintainer:
Linus Torvalds
Since we generally have lots of copies of the directories created using this tool, use hardlinks where possible. This should save a little disk space and improve performance slightly. Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <redacted> ---
diff --git a/scripts/cp-noerror b/scripts/cp-noerror
index f0cd243..cde1b54 100755
--- a/scripts/cp-noerror
+++ b/scripts/cp-noerror@@ -21,7 +21,13 @@ def copytree(src, dst, symlinks=False, ignore=None): srcname = os.path.join(src, name) dstname = os.path.join(dst, name) try: - shutil.copy2(srcname, dstname) + d = dstname + if os.path.isdir(dstname): + d = os.path.join(dstname, os.path.basename(srcname)) + try: + os.link(srcname, dstname) + except OSError: + shutil.copy2(srcname, dstname) # catch the Error from the recursive copytree so that we can # continue with other files except shutil.Error, err: