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RE: Local clones aka forks disk size optimization

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Nov 16, 2012, 14:55 UTC
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Javier Domingo
> Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2012 8:15 PM
> 
> Hi Andrew,
> 
> Doing this would require I got tracked which one comes from which. So
> it would imply some logic (and db) over it. With the hardlinking way,
> it wouldn't require anything. The idea is that you don't have to do
> anything else in the server.
> 
> I understand that it would be imposible to do it for windows users
Not true, it is a file system issue not an os issue. FAT does not support hard links, but ext2,3,4 and NTFS do.
> (but using cygwin), but for *nix ones yes...
> Javier Domingo
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Message 12 of 13 in “Fwd: Local clones aka forks disk size optimization”
  1. Javier DomingoNov 14, 2012
  2. Andrew ArdillNov 15, 2012
  3. Javier DomingoNov 15, 2012
  4. Andrew ArdillNov 15, 2012
  5. Javier DomingoNov 15, 2012
  6. Andrew ArdillNov 15, 2012
  7. Sitaram ChamartyNov 15, 2012
  8. Michael J GruberNov 16, 2012
  9. Enrico WeigeltNov 16, 2012
  10. Sitaram ChamartyNov 18, 2012
  11. Enrico WeigeltNov 18, 2012
  12. Pyeron, Jason J CTR (US)Nov 16, 2012
  13. Jörg RosenkranzNov 18, 2012

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