On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 10:33:54AM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 10:26:32PM -0300, Rogério Brito wrote: > > If you only need to use this coarse deduplication, then take a look at > > rdfind, instead of hardlink. Hardlink compares the files that are > > likely to be the same (e.g., same size) byte by byte, while rdfind > > uses hashes (md5 or sha1, at your option) to compare the files. > > Right, I'm benchmarking this option as we speak. Given we already have > hashes (SHA256 in this case) in sources.d.n, it would be cool for us if > rdfind / hardlink / $your_tool_here can be fed external DB hashes. And > none of the tools I've looked at seem to do that.
Hmm, what's the point of using such a tool if you already have the hashes? Just link the duplicates manually, it's a single line for both "ln" and "cp --reflink". -- ᛊᚨᚾᛁᛏᚣ᛫ᛁᛊ᛫ᚠᛟᚱ᛫ᚦᛖ᛫ᚹᛖᚨᚲ _______________________________________________ Debconf-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-discuss
