On Fri, Jun 01, 2018 at 04:29:30PM +0300, Dmitry V. Levin wrote: > On Fri, Jun 01, 2018 at 01:38:07PM +0200, Karel Zak wrote: > > For last 17 years in Red Hat based distros is available hardlink(1) > > util, man hardlink: > > > > hardlink traverses one or more directories searching for duplicate > > files. When it finds duplicate files, it uses one of them as the > > master. It then removes all other duplicates and places a hardlink > > for each one pointing to the master file. This allows for > > conservation of disk space where multiple directories on a single > > filesystem contain many dupli‐ cate files. > > > > ... > > > > the util is little bit orphaned, what about to add this util to > > util-linux to make it available for another distros and keep it > > maintained in serious way? ;-) > > > > https://src.fedoraproject.org/cgit/rpms/hardlink.git/ > > > > It's one .c file. > > > > Comments & objections? > > Better late than never. > > BTW, our hardlink package has some Owl patches applied, > please remind us to rebase and submit them. ;) It seems there is no any strong objection against hardlink. So, I think we can add it as *optional* (--enable-hardlink) to util-linux. IMHO it's good idea to have such tool in basic Linux toolset. The long term goal should be to add another new features to make it more attractive to users who have to use another alternatives now :-) I won't have enough time in next two weeks to work on this task (fix indention, reuse some lib/ stuff, etc.), so any volunteer(s)? ;-) Karel -- Karel Zak <kzak@xxxxxxxxxx> http://karelzak.blogspot.com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe util-linux" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
