On Wed, 1 Mar 2000, Kevin P. Neal wrote:
> > Wow, this Single Instance Store sure is an incredible advance in computing...
> > Do you think we can implement something like this for NetBSD?
> > 
> > http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/2000/02-28w2k.asp
> 
> Kidding, right?
> 
> Sounds like a waste of time, a bunch of extra complexity that's going
> to break sometime, or just plain unneeded (at least on Unix).

Unneeded? Maybe. But still:

``Dupmerge reads a list of files from standard input (eg., as produced by
"find . -print") and looks for identical files. When it finds two or more
identical files, all but one are unlinked to reclaim the disk space and
recreated as hard links to the remaining copy.''
            [http://www.freshmeat.net/appindex/1999/12/25/946159875.html]

The author should have patented his program in 1993... :-)


 - Hubert

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