Re: [reiserfs-list] duplicate files and recent changes

[Hans Reiser]

Oleg Drokin wrote:

>Hello!
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>On Thu, Jun 06, 2002 at 01:30:46AM -0400, S. Alexander Jacobson wrote:
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>>I just joined this list.  Two question:
>>1. Can reiserfs detect that I have two copies of
>>the same file on disk and store tham as one file
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>Hm, you mean, each time you create a file, reiserfs should scan all
>other files and see if there is exactly a file like you just wrote?
>Hm, even something more complicated as you are writing to a file in
>4k chunks.
>Definitely no.
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It is in windows.  Patented I think.  It may be the only innovation in 
Windows (CTRL-ALT-DELETE was not invented by MS).