Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 17 Oct 2003 09:47:49 -0500 | From | Eli Carter <> | Subject | Re: Transparent compression in the FS |
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jw schultz wrote: [snip] > Now detecting files that are duplicates and linking them in > some way might be a useful in a low-priority daemon. But > the links created would have to be sure to preserve them as > seperate inodes so that overwrites break the loose link but > not the user-created hardlink.
This would be very useful even in other situations... particularly the 'cp -lR linux-2.4.22 linux-2.4.22-work' trick. Not having to worry about modifying the original version would be nice. (Note that chmod -w can help with this, but it isn't automatic.)
Eli --------------------. "If it ain't broke now, Eli Carter \ it will be soon." -- crypto-gram eli.carter(a)inet.com `-------------------------------------------------
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