25 Jan 2009 (Sun)

14:04:36 # Life Theo's post on hardlink backup tools made me think. In his post, Wanted: Incremental Backup Solutions that Use a Database , he proposed making a incremental backup solution on Database (RDBMS). He's right that hardlinking files so much is putting load on filesystem, especially when fscking. One thing is that although conceptually RDBMS is handling relations, physically (and practically) they are doing similar stuff with hardlinked filesystems. They are just optimized differently, tuned for their 'fsck' behavior with many hardlinks. So, there could be a filesystem which can be tuned for hardlinking. Of course, just because I thought about it it doesn't mean I have come up with a good solution to the problem.

Junichi Uekawa

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