On Thu, Dec 25, 2008 at 12:04:43PM -0600, John Goerzen wrote: > Julian Andres Klode wrote: > > > > Hardlink is a tool which detects multiple copies of the same file and > > replaces > > them with hardlinks. > > . > > The idea has been taken from http://code.google.com/p/hardlinkpy/, but the > > code has been written from scratch and licensed under the MIT license. > > Do we really need another tool like this? > > We already have these packages: > > fdupes > perforate AFAIK, they do not replace files, they just find them. > > Plus a host of tools that do backups, datapacker that packs things onto > DVDs, and the like, using hard links. hardlink can be used to link files in multiple backup trees, and also features options to maximize/minimize the link count, and much more.
Imagine you have two backups, each on a different filesystem. Now you want to have them both on one filesystem. In this situation, you can use hardlink to link all common files in the backups together. > -- Julian Andres Klode - Free Software Developer Debian Developer - Contributing Member of SPI Ubuntu Member - Fellow of FSFE Website: http://jak-linux.org/ XMPP: juli...@jabber.org Debian: http://www.debian.org/ SPI: http://www.spi-inc.org/ Ubuntu: http://www.ubuntu.com/ FSFE: http://www.fsfe.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-wnpp-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
