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2008 Jan 23
2
Thought on large files
...ak a
large file into chunks and store them that way, then one can still make
use of hard-links efficiently.
For example, going back to a 10Gb Exchange Database file, its likely not
going to change too much during use. So if the server stored the huge
clumsy 'priv1.edb' as:
.priv1.edb._somemagicstring_.1
.priv1.edb._somemagicstring_.2
etc...
and intelligently only broke the 'hard-links' of the bits that actually
change, then it all works well. One could have an option to enable this
for files bigger than a certain size, and break them into specific sized
chunks.
One could quite rig...