Re: [rdiff-backup-users] feature requests and notes

[Nathaniel Smith]

On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 03:39:27PM -0800, Ben Escoto wrote:
> The md5 sum thing for detecting moved/duplicate files is complicated,
> and may make things slower.  Before someone can even start
> implementing it, someone should:
> 
> 1.  Determine if it would be worth it.  Is the point to save space?
>     Are people really short of space nowadays?

Often people are not.  But this would really be worthwhile in the case
of large, mostly static files -- which are actually rather common;
think "media".  It'd be nice if one could rearrange directories of
high-resolution pictures, rename mp3s, move digital movies, etc.,
without ending up with lots of copies of these huge files on the
backup.  It's also helpful for renaming directories generally...

-- Nathaniel

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