I think that's what I meant - where merge == link to same data. Or are you
meaning something else?
-- Nathan
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sam Hartman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2001 10:24 AM
> To: Neulinger, Nathan
> Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
> Subject: Re: [OpenAFS-devel] Suggestions for features/ideas...
>
>
> >>>>> "Neulinger," == Neulinger, Nathan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Neulinger,> Some way to merge the links of two volumes - i.e. say
> Neulinger,> you have two almost-identical volumes on the server -
> Neulinger,> compare all the files within those volumes. If two are
> Neulinger,> exactly identical, link them to the same data on disk,
> Neulinger,> similar to what cloning does. (This might be a way to
> Neulinger,> get rid of the double-space usage of the first item
> Neulinger,> above.)
>
> I wonder if it might not be easier to do this using md5sums or
> something and just merge any two files that had identical data in the
> set of volumes being considered. You could then run periodic passes
> over a partition.
>
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