From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263577AbTJQTVV (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Oct 2003 15:21:21 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263585AbTJQTVV (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Oct 2003 15:21:21 -0400 Received: from zeke.inet.com ([199.171.211.198]:47592 "EHLO zeke.inet.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263577AbTJQTVU (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Oct 2003 15:21:20 -0400 Message-ID: <3F900115.5090009@inet.com> Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2003 09:47:49 -0500 From: Eli Carter User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20030708 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: jw schultz CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Transparent compression in the FS References: <1066163449.4286.4.camel@Borogove> <20031015133305.GF24799@bitwizard.nl> <3F8D6417.8050409@pobox.com> <20031016162926.GF1663@velociraptor.random> <20031016232020.GC29279@pegasys.ws> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org jw schultz wrote: [snip] > Now detecting files that are duplicates and linking them in > some way might be a useful in a low-priority daemon. But > the links created would have to be sure to preserve them as > seperate inodes so that overwrites break the loose link but > not the user-created hardlink. This would be very useful even in other situations... particularly the 'cp -lR linux-2.4.22 linux-2.4.22-work' trick. Not having to worry about modifying the original version would be nice. (Note that chmod -w can help with this, but it isn't automatic.) Eli --------------------. "If it ain't broke now, Eli Carter \ it will be soon." -- crypto-gram eli.carter(a)inet.com `-------------------------------------------------