On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 5:41 PM, james northrup <northrup.ja...@gmail.com> wrote: > > dunno if this thread is dead, but im inclined to patch in cp --reflink to > "fdupes" prog. > It currently does provide a poor-man's dedupe via md5sum and hardlink, or > delete. > > all the better if the distro-kernels can backport cross-snapshot reflinks > sooner than later. >
I was also wondering if it is possible for a program like fdupes to use BTRFS checksum to make searching for duplicates much faster as you wouldn't need to calculate checksum if BTRFS own checksum was mismatched between 2 groups of checksum blocks? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
