From b4174b26219d0c264562656da0df59c5b803f2ac Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Carl N Baldwin Date: Fri, 4 Nov 2005 17:12:47 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Changed todo --- TODO | 13 +++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+) diff --git a/TODO b/TODO index 7eec963..8149c64 100644 --- a/TODO +++ b/TODO @@ -1 +1,14 @@ Add 'real' disk usage to db format so that sparse files are packed efficiently. + - A sparse file takes up less disk space than the size of the file. + Currently, lsbackups calculates enough space to include the whole thing on + the CD. With an ext2 filesystem there is no need to do this. It only needs + to reserve enough space for the actual disk usage. + - This might not be true if the target image uses an ISO fs. I should do some + looking into this. + +If a file has multiple hard-links then this is not handled efficiently. +lsbackups should only calculate space on the target filesystem for one +copy and actually preserve the hard-links. This will save space and +make restore more accurate since the hard-links will still be there +after the restore. + -- 2.34.1