-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Friday, 2017-10-27 at 21:45 +0100, Dave Howorth wrote:
On Fri, 27 Oct 2017 14:20:31 +0100 Peter Suetterlin <> wrote:
Wols Lists wrote:
On 27/10/17 13:46, Carlos E. R. wrote:
I know it *can* do it.
But it doesn't by default, and can get very slow if it does.
No, it doesn't get slow just by telling it to keep hardlinks. It gets slow when you tell it to compare files.
Depends on how many hardlinks you've got, and how much ram. Last time I tried it, it brought my system near enough to its knees, though that wasn't the current system that has ram coming out of its ears - the old system had less than a gig iirc.
Might indeed be - it's a warning that I well remembered, but I had not used the option myself in quite some time. Might be it was in (ancient) times of meager hardware, too :D
Well I've used it for many years with many millions of hardlinks and it works fine.
Same here. Even if it would run slower I would use it. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. (from 42.2 x86_64 "Malachite" at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iEYEARECAAYFAlnznbMACgkQtTMYHG2NR9Uf/QCfdqxReg/R+HNUM8CNL9BJmIzR 30kAoIjXy3D/m6QyWmzo+fFqfDM+0kK+ =bzdN -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org