Craig Barratt wrote at about 22:38:42 -0800 on Tuesday, December 7, 2010:
 > Robin writes:
 > 
 > > > In fact, it was for applications like this that I had suggested a
 > > > while back adding the partial md5sum to the attrib file so that
 > > > the reverse lookup can be done more cheaply 
 > > 
 > > That would, in fact, be fantastic.
 > > 
 > > > (the need for all of this will be obviated when Craig finishes the
 > > > next version :P )
 > > 
 > > Oh?  How's that looking?
 > 
 > There's good progress, but I've been busy the last several weeks,
 > so lately it's slow.
 > 
 > Yes, it now uses full-file md5 and that digest is stored in the
 > attribute file.  It supports rsync3, acls and xattrs.  Plus there
 > are no hardlinks - reference counting is done via a simple database.

Sounds truly awesome...
Although I will stick with Linux, just wondering does getting rid of
hard links mean that it will be possible to run this on Windoze for
those who like that type of stuff...

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