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

[Robert Siemer]

On Fri, Aug 25, 2006 at 11:21:11PM +0200, Per Marker Mortensen wrote:
> 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. 

The rsync "--fuzzy" options seems interesting here...


Robert