From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Jeff Fisher <guppy@techmonkeys.org>
Subject: Re: New feature Idea
Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2008 13:00:56 -0600
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Cc: Morey Roof <moreyroof@gmail.com>, linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org
To: jim owens <jowens@hp.com>
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> Don't do it!!!
> 
> OK, I know Chris has described some block sharing.  But I hate it.
> 
> If I copy "resume" to "resume.save", it is because I want 2 copies
> for safety.  I don't want the fs to reduce it to 1 copy.  And
> reducing the duplicates is exactly opposite to Chris's paranoid
> make-multiple-copies-by-default.
> 
> Now feel free to tell me I'm an idiot (other people do) :)

I would imagine that it would be optional and at worst, a specialized 
fork of btrfs that follows the mainline but adds the deduplication bits.

Jeff