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docs: mtime-window: document the "chaining" aspect of --mtime-window
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sahib committed Nov 21, 2016
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Only consider those files as duplicates that have the same content and
the same modification time (mtime) within a certain window of *T* seconds.
If *T* is 0, both files need to have the same mtime. For *T=1* they may
differ one second and so on. If the window is negative, the mtime of
differ one second and so on. If the window size is negative, the mtime of
duplicates will not be considered.

However, with three (or more) files, the mtime difference between two
duplicates can be bigger than the mtime window *T*, i.e. several files may
be chained together by the window. Example: If *T* is 1, the four files
fooA (mtime: 00:00:00), fooB (00:00:01), fooC (00:00:02), fooD (00:00:03)
would all belong to the same duplicate group, although the mtime of fooA
and fooD differs by 3 seconds.

:``--with-fiemap`` (**default**) / ``--without-fiemap``:

Enable or disable reading the file extents on rotational disk in order to
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