I ran into an issue yesterday where I chowned a huge directory to ensure all the files were the same owner. Most of the files were already this owner, but they were all copied up because the ctime needed to be updated, which exhausted my drive space and caused my system to stop functioning.
I was wondering if there could be some way to deduplicate in this scenario? Such that when the ctime needs to be updated, just some small metafile is copied up, and not all the contents which could be many gigabytes? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Transform Data into Opportunity. Accelerate data analysis in your applications with Intel Data Analytics Acceleration Library. Click to learn more. http://makebettercode.com/inteldaal-eval
