On 06/01/2018 06:08 AM, Ruediger Meier wrote:
> On Friday 01 June 2018, Karel Zak wrote:
>> For last 17 years in Red Hat based distros is available hardlink(1)
>> util, man hardlink:
>>
>>    hardlink traverses one or more directories searching for duplicate
>>    files.  When it finds duplicate files, it uses one of them as the
>>    master.  It then removes all other duplicates and places a
>> hardlink for each one pointing to the master file.  This allows for
>> conservation of disk space where multiple directories on a single
>> filesystem contain many  dupli cate files.
>>
>>    ...
>>
>> the util is little bit orphaned, what about to add this util to
>> util-linux to make it available for another distros and keep it
>> maintained in serious way? ;-)
> 
> +1
> 
>>
>>    https://src.fedoraproject.org/cgit/rpms/hardlink.git/
> 
> The original and almost identical repo is this:
>   https://pagure.io/hardlink.git
> 
> I've CC'ed the project admin Kevin Fenzi.


I've also added my co-maintainer (tsao@fedoraproject.org).
He's done most of the recent work on it, I haven't had time to do much
with it at all.

I'd personally be in favor of it moving into util-linux. Hopefully it
would get more time and attention there and more widespread use.

If tsao agrees, lets make it happen.

kevin