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

[Neulinger, Nathan]

I think that's what I meant - where merge == link to same data. Or are you
meaning something else?

-- Nathan

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sam Hartman [mailto:hartmans@mit.edu]
> Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2001 10:24 AM
> To: Neulinger, Nathan
> Cc: 'openafs-devel@openafs.org'
> Subject: Re: [OpenAFS-devel] Suggestions for features/ideas...
> 
> 
> >>>>> "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.
>