On Wed, 01 Sep 2021 01:33:34 +0200, Alexander Hall wrote:
> If two files to be compared share the same inode, it should
> be reasonable to consider them identical.
>
> This gives a substantial speedup when comparing directory
> structures with many hardlinked files, e.g. when using
> rsnapshot
On Wed, Sep 01, 2021 at 01:12:20PM +0200, Stefan Sperling wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 01, 2021 at 01:33:34AM +0200, Alexander Hall wrote:
> > If two files to be compared share the same inode, it should
> > be reasonable to consider them identical.
> >
> > This gives a substantial speedup when comparing
On Wed, Sep 01, 2021 at 01:33:34AM +0200, Alexander Hall wrote:
> If two files to be compared share the same inode, it should
> be reasonable to consider them identical.
>
> This gives a substantial speedup when comparing directory
> structures with many hardlinked files, e.g. when using
>
shocking this test wasn't already in place.
Alexander Hall wrote:
> If two files to be compared share the same inode, it should
> be reasonable to consider them identical.
>
> This gives a substantial speedup when comparing directory
> structures with many hardlinked files, e.g. when using
>
If two files to be compared share the same inode, it should
be reasonable to consider them identical.
This gives a substantial speedup when comparing directory
structures with many hardlinked files, e.g. when using
rsnapshot for incremental backup.
Comments? OK?
/Alexander
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