From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Morey Roof Subject: Re: New feature Idea Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2008 13:09:55 -0600 Message-ID: <48A33183.7000305@gmail.com> References: <48A320A0.80609@gmail.com> <48A32DDE.8070203@hp.com> <48A32F68.90102@techmonkeys.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed To: linux-btrfs Return-path: In-Reply-To: <48A32F68.90102@techmonkeys.org> List-ID: 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 >