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On Mon, 15 March 2004 07:45:58 +0000, Jamie Lokier wrote: > Pavel Machek wrote: > > > Or did you mean the problem of tar backups growing *much* larger than > > > the real filesystem? Yes, tar becomes useless for backups then. :) > > Yep, this is what I meant. > > A different but related problem: rsync cannot backup my kernel > development directory from one hard disk to another, because it > contains lots of kernel trees mostly hard linked to each other. rsync > falls over, trying to keep track of the roughly half a million links. > > You might see similar problems trying to backup a strongly "copyfile"'d > filesystems. And both are easily fixable, if you don't mind using 16 bytes of RAM per inode. At least for rsync this should be a piece of cake compared to the amount of memory already used. :) Jörn -- When in doubt, use brute force. -- Ken Thompson - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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