[SunRescue] symlinks

[James Lockwood]

On Fri, 3 Mar 2000, Hatle, Steven J. wrote:

> To be fair, if you read the whole article (especially the sidebar), the
> "invention" looks at file systems, finds files that are identical, keeps
> one, and then makes symlinks to it in the other places where the other
> copies resided.

...which SyncTrac by HPS has been capable of doing since at least 1994.

Granted, it's an MVS/XA app, but the idea is hardly new.  SyncTrac/OP
could also do this for Unix but not at a system level (had to run from
cron or similar to scan a system).

-James