Re: hardlink util -- files de-duplication

["Dmitry V. Levin" <ldv@altlinux.org>]

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On Fri, Jun 01, 2018 at 01:38:07PM +0200, Karel Zak wrote:
> For last 17 years in Red Hat based distros is available hardlink(1)
> util, man hardlink:
> 
>    hardlink traverses one or more directories searching for duplicate
>    files.  When it finds duplicate files, it uses one of them as the
>    master.  It then removes all other duplicates and places a hardlink
>    for each one pointing to the master file.  This allows for
>    conservation of disk space where multiple directories on a single
>    filesystem contain many  dupli‐ cate files.
> 
>    ...
> 
> the util is little bit orphaned, what about to add this util to
> util-linux to make it available for another distros and keep it
> maintained in serious way? ;-)
> 
>    https://src.fedoraproject.org/cgit/rpms/hardlink.git/
> 
> It's one .c file.
> 
> Comments & objections?

Better late than never.

BTW, our hardlink package has some Owl patches applied,
please remind us to rebase and submit them. ;)


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ldv

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