Re: New feature Idea

[Morey Roof <moreyroof@gmail.com>]

I was hoping to have it specified as a set of mount options or defaults 
controlled in the super block so that if you want to use it you can 
otherwise it doesn't exist.

-Morey

Jeff Fisher wrote:
>> 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
>