Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 10 Sep 2001 10:35:49 +0100 | From | "John P. Looney" <> | Subject | Re: COW fs (Re: Editing-in-place of a large file) |
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On Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 12:28:51PM +0300, VDA mentioned: > Now, sometimes we use hardlinks as "poor man's COW fs", but > I bet it's error prone. Every now and then you forget it's a > hardlinked kernel tree and start happily hacking in it... :-(
And of course hardlinks don't work on directories...
> A "compressor" which hunts and merges duplicate blocks is a bonus, > not a primary tool.
Checkout http://freshmeat.net/projects/fslint/ - it's an excellent tool for hunting down duplicate files, dangling links etc.
Kate
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