On Tue, 30 Aug 2005, Graeme Humphries wrote:
> Guy Dallaire wrote:
> > Yes, thanks. I know about hard links. But how would it impact the size
> > or performance of my backups ?
> > 
> Well, if a file is hard linked multiple times, it'll be backed up multiple
> times. Therefor, a filesystem with tons of hard links will take a really long
> time to back up. :)

Fortunately tar is sufficiently smart to back it up only once.

Usually the problem with lots of hard links is not the data timeout value, but
the estimate timeout value, as I found out the hard way[*].

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                                                Geert

[*] Like having `all' Linux kernel source trees on my disk, with identical
    files hardlinked together, as a poor man's blazing fast SCM system.
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