A tool like 'hardlink' will only work for a read-only repository, or one in which files can never be overwritten, only replaced. For true deduplication you really want the underlying file system to have support for 'breaking' the hard link when one file is changed; basically, copy-on-write semantics. This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss