Frank van Maarseveen wrote: > On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 11:26:25AM -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote: >> On Mon, 2007-01-08 at 13:00 +0100, Miklos Szeredi wrote: >> >>>> 50% probability of false positive on 4G files seems like very ugly >>>> design problem to me. >>> 4 billion files, each with more than one link is pretty far fetched. >>> And anyway, filesystems can take steps to prevent collisions, as they >>> do currently for 32bit st_ino, without serious difficulties >>> apparently. >> Maybe not 4 billion files, but you can get a large number of >1 linked >> files, when you copy full directories with "cp -rl". > > Yes but "cp -rl" is typically done by _developers_ and they tend to > have a better understanding of this (uh, at least within linux context > I hope so). I'm not really following this thread, but that's wrong. A lot of people use hardlinks to provide snapshot functionality. I.E. the following can be used to efficiently make snapshots: rsync /src/ /backup/today cp -al /backup/today /backup/$Date See also: http://www.dirvish.org/ http://www.rsnapshot.org/ http://igmus.org/code/ > Also, just adding hard-links doesn't increase the number of inodes. I don't think that was the point. Pádraig. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
