[OpenAFS-devel] Suggestions for features/ideas...

[Sam Hartman]

>>>>> "Neulinger," == Neulinger, Nathan <nneul@umr.edu> writes:

    Neulinger,> Some way to merge the links of two volumes - i.e. say
    Neulinger,> you have two almost-identical volumes on the server -
    Neulinger,> compare all the files within those volumes. If two are
    Neulinger,> exactly identical, link them to the same data on disk,
    Neulinger,> similar to what cloning does. (This might be a way to
    Neulinger,> get rid of the double-space usage of the first item
    Neulinger,> above.)

I wonder if it might not be easier to do this using md5sums or
something and just merge any two files that had identical data in the
set of volumes being considered.  You could then run periodic passes
over a partition.