On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 05:11:17AM +0000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > > anyway, there is something called IMMUTABLE-LINK-INVERSION > > >From - vserver 0.6 changes log > http://www.solucorp.qc.ca/changes.hc?projet=vserver&version=0.6 > it looks like this is now part of the ctx patch > but probably only for ext2
hmm, currently ext2, ext3 and reiserfs are supported, jfs is broken, rest unknown ... > Does anyone maintain the modified e2fsprogs package? > Sam's patch is for version 1.25. maybe a fs independant solution would be advantageous ... Sam? > > it can be used, although it's not copy on write, as you > > will know now ... > > copy on write would be better, then one could blindly unify > all files that are the same. If you can work that out, e.g. > using VFS or something you would make many people happy. please, before you start implementing it *G* have a look at http://www.13thfloor.at/TBVFS/ > Interesting comment from > GCFS: a Garbage-Collected Filesystem for Linux > http://www.eleves.ens.fr:8080/home/madore/linux/gcfs/ > ..... > This �copy on write� idea is also completely independent > from the GCFS. I should be asking myself whether it could > be implemented in a traditional (gc-less) filesystem, but > every time I try to think about this question, > my mind seems to go bezerk. > ..... > > > > If I knew the APIs, I'd be happy to write such a tool myself. > > You can look at: > fdupes - install with dselect > > or a perl script fast-dupemerge > http://www.furryterror.org/~zblaxell/dupemerge/ hmm, maybe I should release my fsum utility (this could speed up file hashing) thanks for the additional infos/links ... best, Herbert > > there where several proposals, and as far as I remember > > Sam is actually maintaining (at least from time to time) > > a tool to unify on debian and similar systems ... > > I found unify-dirs at > http://mirrors.paul.sladen.org/sam.vilain.net/vserver/ > > --- > Also interesting to look at User-mode Linux > > -- Sharing Filesystems between Virtual Machines > http://user-mode-linux.sourceforge.net/shared_fs.html > > -- Host file access > http://user-mode-linux.sourceforge.net/hostfs.html > > best > ragnar
