Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 6 Mar 2000 00:19:28 +0100 | From | Jamie Lokier <> | Subject | Re: cow-links |
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Nix wrote: > > there are special cases where you don't have to hash to know > > that units can be coalesced. Copying (ln --cow-link or something) is one > > example. > > If it has to be done manually, IMNSHO it is nearly useless. The whole > point of this is that redundancy that you *didn't know was redundant* > can be eliminated. (If you want redundancy for safety, FS replication > and/or RAID are the way to go; not accident.)
ln --cow-link would be extremely useful actually. For us developers especially.
> Yeah, basically. Only the compression algorithm is designed on-the-fly > for that data set. > > (The maths nutter --- not I --- whose idea most of this was is still > working on it.)
Sounds like you're working on something similar to me. Better keep it mysterious :-)
-- Jamie
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