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From: Wolfgang Weisselberg <weissel@netcologne.de>
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] getting started with LVM
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Date: Thu May 23 21:11:02 2002
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Hi, Ben!

Ben Snyder (ben@jumpline.com) wrote 54 lines:

> Something I probably should have mentioned....due to some software we 
> use to serve our customers, we have hard links - TONS of them. 

Have you looked at afio (and it's -4 option for dealing with more
than 64k hardlinks)?  Be sure to read the 'BUGS' section as well.

Oh, and afio can compress the backup -- by compressing 'per
file', thus corruption only kills the affected files.

-Wolfgang