[Dirvish] Small question on the use of hardlinks in dirvish

[Per Marker Mortensen]

At Sun, 9 Jul 2006 23:05:22 +0200,
Eric Mountain wrote:

> Basically, AFAIK rsync makes no attempt to figure out file movement or 
> duplication between directories in order to "optimise" space used on the 
> target.  In particular, it won't try to be smarter than you: you made a copy 
> of the file, so as far as rsync is concerned, these are 2 different files in 
> 2 different directories (if rsync tried to compare all your files amongst 
> themselves to find duplicates and hardlink them on the target, it would run 
> very slowly indeed I think).  I would expect it to work if you hardlink the 

faster-dupemerge by Zygo Blaxell

is the tool to use to find duplicates and hardlink them. 

Search google for it.

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Yours

Per Marker Mortensen <per at markermortensen.dk>