Re: [ceph-users] CephFS: effects of using hard links

2019-03-22 Thread Gregory Farnum
On Thu, Mar 21, 2019 at 2:45 PM Dan van der Ster wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 21, 2019 at 8:51 AM Gregory Farnum wrote: > > > > On Wed, Mar 20, 2019 at 6:06 PM Dan van der Ster > > wrote: > >> > >> On Tue, Mar 19, 2019 at 9:43 AM Erwin Bogaard > >> wrote: > >> > > >> > Hi, > >> > > >> > > >> > >

Re: [ceph-users] CephFS: effects of using hard links

2019-03-21 Thread Dan van der Ster
On Thu, Mar 21, 2019 at 8:51 AM Gregory Farnum wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 20, 2019 at 6:06 PM Dan van der Ster wrote: >> >> On Tue, Mar 19, 2019 at 9:43 AM Erwin Bogaard >> wrote: >> > >> > Hi, >> > >> > >> > >> > For a number of application we use, there is a lot of file duplication. >> > This

Re: [ceph-users] CephFS: effects of using hard links

2019-03-21 Thread Gregory Farnum
On Wed, Mar 20, 2019 at 6:06 PM Dan van der Ster wrote: > On Tue, Mar 19, 2019 at 9:43 AM Erwin Bogaard > wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > For a number of application we use, there is a lot of file duplication. > This wastes precious storage space, which I would like to avoid. > > > > When

Re: [ceph-users] CephFS: effects of using hard links

2019-03-20 Thread Dan van der Ster
On Tue, Mar 19, 2019 at 9:43 AM Erwin Bogaard wrote: > > Hi, > > > > For a number of application we use, there is a lot of file duplication. This > wastes precious storage space, which I would like to avoid. > > When using a local disk, I can use a hard link to let all duplicate files > point

Re: [ceph-users] CephFS: effects of using hard links

2019-03-20 Thread Yan, Zheng
On 3/20/19 11:54 AM, Gregory Farnum wrote: On Tue, Mar 19, 2019 at 2:13 PM Erwin Bogaard > wrote: Hi, For a number of application we use, there is a lot of file duplication. This wastes precious storage space, which I would like to avoid.

Re: [ceph-users] CephFS: effects of using hard links

2019-03-19 Thread Gregory Farnum
On Tue, Mar 19, 2019 at 2:13 PM Erwin Bogaard wrote: > Hi, > > > > For a number of application we use, there is a lot of file duplication. > This wastes precious storage space, which I would like to avoid. > > When using a local disk, I can use a hard link to let all duplicate files > point to

[ceph-users] CephFS: effects of using hard links

2019-03-19 Thread Erwin Bogaard
Hi, For a number of application we use, there is a lot of file duplication. This wastes precious storage space, which I would like to avoid. When using a local disk, I can use a hard link to let all duplicate files point to the same inode (use "rdfind", for example). As there isn't any