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From: Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>
Subject: Re: duplicate files and recent changes
Date: Thu, 06 Jun 2002 11:47:22 +0400
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To: Oleg Drokin <green@namesys.com>
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Oleg Drokin wrote:

>Hello!
>
>
>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
>>    
>>
>
>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.
>
It is in windows.  Patented I think.  It may be the only innovation in 
Windows (CTRL-ALT-DELETE was not invented by MS).