A desktop kernel wishlist

Posted Nov 5, 2014 19:06 UTC (Wed) by pedrocr (guest, #57415)
Parent article: A desktop kernel wishlist

Another potential FS/VFS feature would be to be able to enumerate the files that point to the same inode. That would make sync/backup solutions much more efficient at handling hardlinks.

There was a discussion around this and other issues on a hacker news post about copying a very large file structure:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8305283