Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 9 Jan 2007 20:53:10 +0100 | From | Frank van Maarseveen <> | Subject | Re: Finding hardlinks |
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On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 11:26:25AM -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote: > On Mon, 2007-01-08 at 13:00 +0100, Miklos Szeredi wrote: > > > > 50% probability of false positive on 4G files seems like very ugly > > > design problem to me. > > > > 4 billion files, each with more than one link is pretty far fetched. > > And anyway, filesystems can take steps to prevent collisions, as they > > do currently for 32bit st_ino, without serious difficulties > > apparently. > > Maybe not 4 billion files, but you can get a large number of >1 linked > files, when you copy full directories with "cp -rl".
Yes but "cp -rl" is typically done by _developers_ and they tend to have a better understanding of this (uh, at least within linux context I hope so).
Also, just adding hard-links doesn't increase the number of inodes.
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