On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 12:35:35AM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 09:17:01PM +0200, Steve Schnepp wrote: > > > There are two ways: > > > > I'm exploring a third way, entirely userspace (I'll draft a mixed one at > > the end). > > > > For that I'm using the "hardlink" package. > > Oh, right! I didn't think about this, but it does in fact perfectly fit > the sources.d.n use case (deduplication granularity is mostly at the > file level, file only changes at every 6-hour update, etc). > > With how many files have you tried it (max)? > > Feel free to catch me in the hacklab (i.e. the bar :)) to discuss this, > or let me know how to recognize you.
There are backup tools working this way (rsync also have this option: --link-dest) rsnapshot (which builds on rsync also uses this) so this is a viable option. The number of hardlink on a file is practicaly limitless. Regards, cstamas -- CSILLAG Tamas (cstamas) - http://cstamas.hu/ _______________________________________________ Debconf-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-discuss
