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I think maybe I can install svn + webdav on my server with apache and map a drive letter to it.

Jaclaz is correct on all accounts. Another solution I thought of is to have some way to point to two files as if they were one file file1 -> partA + partC file2 -> partB + partC BTW, working on windows would be a perk but is not required. I can install the solution on a linux box or VM and share the folder(s) with RW permissions.

I'm not sure if I could explain differently :-/ I'll try a different situation Let's say I have a small business and I install Linux distros on client's computers. For the good of the community, I share these distros back using bittorrent. Let's say that in every one of the ISO's I like to insert my company logo as a default desktop background and the most efficient way to do this is to modify the ISO. In this scenario, I may have 50 different 4.6GB ISOs that I share on bittorrent and 50 more that are my customized versions. The difference between each original and it's customized version is only a couple megabytes so 99% of the data is the same between each pair. Bittorrent is not going to ignore any little part so there is no way (that I know of) to share only that 99%. The solution I had in mind is by using something like a small diff patch, I could give programs access to two different files while most of it points to the same data. Currently, I use hard links to the same data from multiple file names. What I need is some way to (for example) have "c:\somefolder\somefilename" point to "c:\otherfolder\otherfile" with "c:\patchdata\otherfilepatch". In this way, Bittorrent could share the original file and Imgburn could access the modified file but I don't have to lose nearly 50x4.6GB of redundant hdd space.

I need the unmodified tracks for bittorrent but they don't have ReplayGain info in the metadata so I keep a separate copy of the entire album with RG tags. Also, some have the album cover injected into each track. I remove this and use a single folder.jpg.

That is what I'm doing now. I have duplicates of a couple gigs of flac albums. I could also think of a few other uses for such a system

I want to set up something like hard links but only to parts of a file. I have searched all over for something like this or maybe a versioning file system that doesn't make complete copies of the original file. Here is my scenario: I have a folder with music albums. I want to add metadata to these but I want to keep the original unmodified files as well. I'm searching for some way to be able to access either file versions but I really don't like having to keep all the redundant data around.