Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 5 Mar 2000 11:23:11 +0100 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: [OT] Microsoft invents symbolic links |
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Hi!
> > > Actually, 40% of my disk capacity is wasted in duplicates. Why? I do cp > > > -a linux linux.backup before major changes. Automagicall ways to get > > > > I can't even guess what the ratio is on a small companys (like ours) file > > server filled with old source versions and documents copies. > > ever tryed cvs ?
CVS makes it worse: each user has his copy of repository!
> > You could have a cowlinkd running nightly on file server and finding and > > cow-linking those duplicates. (It could e2compr less used files as well). > > > > yes, and introduce overhead in the kernel because each time you copy / > modify a file, it would have to verify if it is a 'cow link'; > and if it is it'll end up moving from a "cow link" to a normal file.
Ha ha.
[You can do check on open(, O_RDWR) and open() is not really hot path.]
Pavel -- I'm pavel@ucw.cz. "In my country we have almost anarchy and I don't care." Panos Katsaloulis describing me w.r.t. patents me at discuss@linmodems.org
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