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diff --git a/doc/forum/Deduplication_in_direct_mode/comment_1_cb8eaa8c19f5bb9e145a5e4c8995a8ca._comment b/doc/forum/Deduplication_in_direct_mode/comment_1_cb8eaa8c19f5bb9e145a5e4c8995a8ca._comment new file mode 100644 index 000000000..63367fcc1 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/forum/Deduplication_in_direct_mode/comment_1_cb8eaa8c19f5bb9e145a5e4c8995a8ca._comment @@ -0,0 +1,22 @@ +[[!comment format=mdwn + username="joey" + subject="""comment 1""" + date="2014-10-31T20:15:58Z" + content=""" +There is really no way to do this. + +We could consider hard-linking the files, but then modifying one would +modify the other, which is likely to be confusing. And, FAT doesn't support +hard links anyway. + +I don't want to complicate git-annex's notion of whether an object is +present or not with the possibility that it might be present for some +files but not for others. For example, `git annex get` would then need +to make a copy of content that was already locally present, while +currently it knows that if the file is locally present, it has nothing to +do. + +I think that the solution is to use either a better filesystem +which can support the suprerior indirect mode, or to switch your +repository to use the WORM backend which does not do deduplication. +"""]] |