(In reply to Nicolas Chauvet from comment #1) > %ghost is availabe with EL6. I don't understand why you think it was not. > What is available with newer OS is that it does not require the file to be > pre-created (so you need to use touch for EL6). Ok, I'm digging into this a bit more... If I have to "touch" the file so that it exists, doesn't that completely contradict the whole reason for using %ghost?