[OSM-dev] tiles at home disk usage

[Grant Slater]

Frederik Ramm wrote:
> Hi,
>
>> A quick temporary fix would be to change tile2.php to unlink new tiles
>> if there is an existing tile.
>
> That didn't parse.
>

I often don't parse. ;-)

Overwriting a tile which is currently hard linked will change the file 
contents of ALL hard linked files.

Removing the tile-file prior to be overwritten, would result in a new 
file and the other hard linked files not being affected.

sudo code
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if file_exists(x/y/tile.png) {
    rm (x/y/tile.png)
    create_file(x/y/tile.png)
}
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>> And then hard link all duplicate tiles.
>> I highly recommend the script "faster-dupemerge" from:
>> http://www.furryterror.org/~zblaxell/dupemerge/dupemerge.html for 
>> this task.
>> It has an extremely efficient duplicate finding mechanism. (low memory
>> requirements)
>
> This is something that can be done right away as a quick fix, without 
> endangering any future cool thing we might think about, and without 
> any side effects I can think of. It should save around 13 GB out of 
> the box.
>
> Bye
> Frederik
>