Question Why plesk use hard link for logs domain?

[federiklampo]

Server operating system version

cloudlinux 8

Plesk version and microupdate number

18.0.48

Why does plesk make use of hard links for domain logs?
Is it for a performance issue? Does it make it easier to manage permissions on files? Is it done to keep the number of inodes down?
just curious...thx

[root@test~]# find / -inum 528484409
/var/www/vhosts/system/gfvdndghftgcbej/logs/access_log
/var/www/vhosts/gfvdndghftgcbej/logs/access_log
[root@test ~]# stat /var/www/vhosts/gfvdndghftgcbej/logs/access_log
  File: /var/www/vhosts/gfvdndghftgcbej/logs/access_log
  Dim.: 0               Blocchi: 0          Blocco di IO: 4096   file regolare vuoto
Device: fd00h/64768d    Inode: 528484409   Coll.: 2
Accesso: (0644/-rw-r--r--)  Uid: (    0/    root)   Gid: (    0/    root)
Accesso  : 2022-11-18 03:57:02.862835876 +0100
Modifica : 2022-11-16 03:39:03.437593898 +0100
Cambio   : 2022-11-18 03:22:55.787473131 +0100
Creazione: 2022-11-15 14:34:36.879789761 +0100

 

[mow]

Symlinks don't work well with chroot, so hardlinks are unavoidable if you don't want to kill performance by logging multiple times.