diff --git a/doc/forum/Lots_of_4k_symlinks/comment_1_96384eaeef1d067a24678c7aa3613063._comment b/doc/forum/Lots_of_4k_symlinks/comment_1_96384eaeef1d067a24678c7aa3613063._comment new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..10a9bbdc23 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/forum/Lots_of_4k_symlinks/comment_1_96384eaeef1d067a24678c7aa3613063._comment @@ -0,0 +1,21 @@ +[[!comment format=mdwn + username="CandyAngel" + avatar="http://cdn.libravatar.org/avatar/15c0aade8bec5bf004f939dd73cf9ed8" + subject="comment 1" + date="2017-04-24T13:55:02Z" + content=""" +> For the \"archivist use case\" of annex, this might lead to tens or hundreds of MBs of disk occupied by symlinks which actually don't add up to more than a few MBs. + + $ pwd + /home/sorting_annex/mnt/keyfile + $ du -shc *-* + ... + 33M fd0dc9d3-ad62-429e-ba1b-acc26a453ca4 + 33M fd2fc989-bea7-4ffb-bbc8-2e34cd0e5be5 + 33M fd79bbd4-d41e-4ea8-acc8-86437c5eed7c + 33M ffbd042e-f6d9-4450-9a57-8ed1086f587c + 2.7G total + $ + +Just a bit :P (yes, that is 2.7G of symlinks *so far*) +"""]]