I've been using my Zaurus with a 340MB Microdrive and it works just fine, I dont see any reason why the 1GB wont work too, since they both work the same under Linux on my laptop (just haven't gotten around to trying the 1GB one in the Zaurus yet).
Certainly there's more to this than simply symbolic links, but a couple of things are puzzling. Firstly there's the claim it can free as much as '80 to 90 percent' of the space on the server - This seems insane unless people are copying the same file all over the place!
Secondly, there are some interesting security implications of a daemon that wanders around identifying matching files. I'd hope that file permissions were stored with the 'link', so that ownership and access doesn't get lost when files are coalesced. But on top of that, if the O/S allows you to know a file has been merged with other instances it could be used to leak information about files you can't see (If I know that my zip file of some prohibited software has been coalesced with something else, I know it exists somewhere on the server, even if I can't see it, for example).
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I've been using my Zaurus with a 340MB Microdrive and it works just fine, I dont see any reason why the 1GB wont work too, since they both work the same under Linux on my laptop (just haven't gotten around to trying the 1GB one in the Zaurus yet).
Certainly there's more to this than simply symbolic links, but a couple of things are puzzling. Firstly there's the claim it can free as much as '80 to 90 percent' of the space on the server - This seems insane unless people are copying the same file all over the place!
Secondly, there are some interesting security implications of a daemon that wanders around identifying matching files. I'd hope that file permissions were stored with the 'link', so that ownership and access doesn't get lost when files are coalesced. But on top of that, if the O/S allows you to know a file has been merged with other instances it could be used to leak information about files you can't see (If I know that my zip file of some prohibited software has been coalesced with something else, I know it exists somewhere on the server, even if I can't see it, for example).
Just my $0.02.