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| author |  Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> | 2011-09-14 13:47:22 -0400 |
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| committer | Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> | 2011-09-14 13:47:22 -0400 |
| commit | 949b3f69d0f2b2a5c32a00d05d09a0b312fad35a (patch) | |
| tree | cc81f8d61652741e365309b86a8020edbce6318e /doc/walkthrough | |
| parent | 1ac6217c74b63b9b154d5ee14ed72df8b5aa9268 (diff) | |
optimize: A new subcommand that either gets or drops file content as needed to work toward meeting the configured numcopies setting.
This is currently rather simplistic, though still useful.
In the future, it could become smarter about what content is stored where,
etc.
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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/walkthrough/optimizing_repositories.mdwn | 13 |
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/doc/walkthrough/optimizing_repositories.mdwn b/doc/walkthrough/optimizing_repositories.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 000000000..0f17f1dea --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/walkthrough/optimizing_repositories.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +Once you have multiple repositories, and have perhaps configured numcopies, +any given file can have many more copies than is needed, or perhaps fewer +than you would like. Fsck can detect the latter problem, but there's another +command that can help deal with both problems. + +The optimize subcommand either gets or drops file content, as needed, +to work toward meeting the configured numcopies setting. + + # git annex optimize + get my_cool_big_file (from laptop...) ok + drop other_file ok + # git annex optimize --numcopies=2 + get other_file ok |