Link original image instead of copy

[ecksun]

I'm hoping to use fgallery for all of my pictures (currently about 100GB), I would also naturally want to include the original image (-i), however when fgallery is copying all my original images it takes an unnecessary amount of extra space.

What is done currently is:

sys('cp', '-L', $file, $fout);

A very simple solution would be to add an option to use hard links instead (cp --link) or symlinks (ln -s).

[wavexx]

Agreed that a flag like --link-orig would come in handy.
Maybe even taking an argument like --link-orig=ref|hard|sym for cp --reflink, ln and ln -s respectively.

[ecksun]

Yes, that sounds like a good solution.