On Thu, 6 Jun 2002, Oleg Drokin wrote: > Hello! > > > On Thu, Jun 06, 2002 at 01:30:46AM -0400, S. Alexander Jacobson wrote: > > I just joined this list. Two question: > > 1. Can reiserfs detect that I have two copies of > > the same file on disk and store tham as one file > > Hm, you mean, each time you create a file, reiserfs should scan all > other files and see if there is exactly a file like you just wrote? > Hm, even something more complicated as you are writing to a file in > 4k chunks. > Definitely no.
And besides, how could it even know whether you even want them to be the same or not. I keen plenty of identical files around (online backups, etc) and I'd be mighty upset if the filesystem started hard linking them together :) Rob -- Robert Brockway B.Sc. email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 104781119 Linux counter project ID #16440 (http://counter.li.org) "The earth is but one country and mankind its citizens" -Baha'u'llah
