Single Instance Service

[GARRISON, TRAVIS J.]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peter Ankerstål [mailto:peter at pean.org]
> Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2007 1:08 AM
> To: GARRISON, TRAVIS J.
> Cc: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: Single Instance Service
> 
> GARRISON, TRAVIS J. wrote:
> > I am looking for software that will run on FreeBSD that is similar to
> Microsoft Single Instance Service.
> >
> > The Single Instance Storage Filter is a file system filter that manages
> the duplicate copies of files on hard-disk volumes. This filter copies one
> instance of the duplicate file into a central folder, and the duplicates
> are replaced with a link to the central copy to improve disk usage.
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> I cant really see why you would need something like this i FreeBSD. Why
> would
> you have shitloads of duplicates?
[GARRISON, TRAVIS J.] 

This is peoples userhomes to save pretty much whatever files they want/need.