From: Pyeron, Jason J CTR (US) <jason.j.pyeron.ctr@mail.mil>
Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2012 14:55:21 GMT
Subject: RE: Local clones aka forks disk size optimization
Message-ID: <871B6C10EBEFE342A772D1159D13208537AAF4EF@umechphj.easf.csd.disa.mil>
In-Reply-To: <CALZVapmBM78UtjAiNm2VoeWuetCiyxN70mTxbG14SQh5a5RCeQ@mail.gmail.com>

> -----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