Symlinks and Redirection

[rezz]

I have 3 servers, 2 of which share alot of the same maps, So to conserve on Harddrive space I symlinked the Map,Textures,Animations,Sounds and Static Meshes folders.

Now in theory redirecting these files should work fine but seems to slow downloads for the above listed folders? Files redirecting from the System folder download fine to clients the other files stop and start again?

So my question is has anyone symlinked files before and if so is there something special you have to do to allow them to be downloaded as though they were the original files?

[SoNY_scarface]

Why would you symlink? Would be better to run seperate system folders with specified paths as maps, music etc

Thats how I'd do it and I'd think most would too.

[qwerty]

yeah just make new folders and change the paths in the ut.ini

[rezz]

Everyone always said I did things the hard way. Thanks guys that makes more sense.

Qwerty what do you mean by

change the paths in the ut.ini

? I am running ut2004 is there a section in the ut2004.ini I have to edit?

[SoNY_scarface]

You'll have Maps=../Maps/ instead of ../ you would put the path so e.g. /home/user/serverdir/Maps

The same for the rest. I don't run servers this way but it does work.