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Message-ID: <20070109195310.GA10572@janus> Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2007 20:53:10 +0100 From: Frank van Maarseveen <frankvm@...nkvm.com> To: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org> Cc: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@...redi.hu>, pavel@....cz, mikulas@...ax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz, matthew@....cx, bhalevy@...asas.com, arjan@...radead.org, jaharkes@...cmu.edu, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, nfsv4@...f.org Subject: Re: Finding hardlinks 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). Also, just adding hard-links doesn't increase the number of inodes. -- Frank - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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