On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 8:12 AM, Timothy J Massey <tmassey AT obscorp DOT com> 
wrote:
>
>
> Wow.  25 *million* files saved in home directories?  That kind of defeats the 
> purpose of shared data!  I thought my users were bad about that...  :)
>

Probably mostly browser-cache files that don't need to be backed up...
 Or checked-out workspaces from the same VCS.   Subversion is
particularly bad about space/file usage since it makes 2 copies of
everything in a checkout and you probably do want to back up
uncommitted local changes.   If disks weren't cheap it might be worth
looking at zfs or btrfs with block dedup - but you still have to back
it up.

-- 
   Les Mikesell
     lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com

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