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SubjectRe: Transparent compression in the FS
jw schultz wrote:
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> 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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