From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 10 Sep 2001 02:45:37 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 10 Sep 2001 02:45:27 -0400 Received: from stine.vestdata.no ([195.204.68.10]:31376 "EHLO stine.vestdata.no") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 10 Sep 2001 02:45:16 -0400 Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2001 08:45:26 +0200 From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Ragnar_Kj=F8rstad?= To: John Ripley Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List , Xavier Bestel , VDA Subject: Re: COW fs (Re: Editing-in-place of a large file) Message-ID: <20010910084526.A31660@vestdata.no> In-Reply-To: <20010902152137.L23180@draal.physics.wisc.edu> <318476047.20010903002818@port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua> <3B9B80E2.C9D5B947@riohome.com> <3B9B9917.DA1CC12F@riohome.com> <1000057292.1867.1.camel@nomade> <3B9C1767.2A35BFD2@riohome.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3B9C1767.2A35BFD2@riohome.com>; from jripley@riohome.com on Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 02:29:11AM +0100 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 02:29:11AM +0100, John Ripley wrote: > My thinking was that I've managed to run out of space on all of the > partitions in the past and had to prune a lot of stuff... so nearly all > the blocks should contain at least some "likely" data. Still, I guess I > need to verify that this isn't distorting the results. The program needs > to recurse over all files on the filesystem rather than all blocks on a > partition. You can find a program that does that at: http://www.stud.ntnu.no/~ragnarkj/download/duplicates.tgz And results from running on a few different filesystem-types (webpages, users home directories, softwareand so on) were posted to reiserfs-list long time ago - look in the archives if you're curious. -- Ragnar Kjørstad Big Storage