On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 12:56:54AM +0200, Csillag Tamas wrote: > There are backup tools working this way (rsync also have this option: > --link-dest) rsnapshot (which builds on rsync also uses this) so this is a > viable option. > > The number of hardlink on a file is practicaly limitless.
Sure, but that's not the interesting performance measure, is it? The point is rather how efficient is the tool on top to discover the need of using hard links instead of copies. And _that_ is likely heavily affected by the _total_ number of files you're applying deduplication upon. -- Stefano Zacchiroli . . . . . . . z...@upsilon.cc . . . . o . . . o . o Maître de conférences . . . . . http://upsilon.cc/zack . . . o . . . o o Former Debian Project Leader . . @zack on identi.ca . . o o o . . . o . « the first rule of tautology club is the first rule of tautology club » _______________________________________________ Debconf-discuss mailing list Debconf-discuss@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-discuss
