[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> ...
> That's a sad situation for backup utilities, by the way - a backup 
> tool would have no way of finding out that file X on fs A already 
> existed as file Z on fs B. So what ? If the file got copied, byte by 
> byte, the same situation exists, the contents are identical. I don't 
> think just because this makes backups slower than they could be if the 
> backup utility were omniscient, that makes a reason to slow file 
> copy/rename operations down.

I don't see this as being a problem at all.

This idea is aimed at being a filesystem performance optimisation,
not a backup optimisation.

Darren

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