On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 01:18:16AM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 12:56:54AM +0200, Csillag Tamas wrote: > > There are backup tools working this way (rsync also have this option: > > --link-dest) rsnapshot (which builds on rsync also uses this) so this is a > > viable option. > > > > The number of hardlink on a file is practicaly limitless. > > Sure, but that's not the interesting performance measure, is it? > > The point is rather how efficient is the tool on top to discover the > need of using hard links instead of copies. And _that_ is likely heavily > affected by the _total_ number of files you're applying deduplication > upon.
I guess you are not around anymore (i did not found you). Let's discuss about this tomorrow (well, during the day ;-). Regards, cstamas -- CSILLAG Tamas (cstamas) - http://cstamas.hu/ _______________________________________________ Debconf-discuss mailing list Debconf-discuss@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-discuss
