Re: Transparent compression in the FS

[Eli Carter]

jw schultz wrote:
[snip]
> Now detecting files that are duplicates and linking them in
> some way might be a useful in a low-priority daemon.  But
> the links created would have to be sure to preserve them as
> seperate inodes so that overwrites break the loose link but
> not the user-created hardlink.

This would be very useful even in other situations...  particularly the 
'cp -lR linux-2.4.22 linux-2.4.22-work' trick.  Not having to worry 
about modifying the original version would be nice.  (Note that chmod -w 
can help with this, but it isn't automatic.)

Eli
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