> Not a direct answer, but this may do what you want: > > http://gitweb.samba.org/?p=rsync-patches.git;a=blob;f=link-by-hash.diff > > This patch adds the --link-by-hash=DIR option, which hard links received > files in a link farm arranged by MD4 file hash. The result is that the > system > will only store one copy of the unique contents of each file, regardless of > the file's name.
This does look like what I was describing, though it seems it was never included into rsync. Is that correct? ---Alex -- Please use reply-all for most replies to avoid omitting the mailing list. To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
