Hi Roy,
>
> It's a good idea, but given the current traffic on the lessfs mailing
> list, I'm not sure if much work is done. I have been a member of that
> list since June 1 and haven't received more than one message, which
> was the one I wrote myself.
>
Almost all the traffic is on the forum - open discussion.
Only one person posted to the mailing list. ;-)

> If done smartly, this may perhaps be possible, but the problem is the
> filesystem's metadata. Is this going to be dedup'ed? How much will
> this take? A simple backup will update atime on all the files backed
> up, and although atime isn't always wanted or needed, the problem
> occurs elsewhere.
Typically the meta data on production systems is approx 10%~20% of the
deduplicated stored data.
Stored data is on my systems 40x less then the data written to the
filesystem.

For example, from a real life backup server making dozens of backups
each day:
# df -h
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/cciss/c0d0p3     9.7G  2.4G  6.9G  26% /
/dev/cciss/c0d0p1      99M   23M   72M  24% /boot
tmpfs                 7.9G     0  7.9G   0% /dev/shm
/dev/cciss/c0d0p4     246G  6.0G  241G   3% /meta
/dev/cciss/c0d1p1     274G   73G  202G  27% /blockdata
/dev/cciss/c1d0p1     4.1T  1.5T  2.7T  35% /data
lessfs                4.1T  1.5T  2.7T  35% /pooldata
[root@lessfssrv pooldata]# du . -s -h
31T     .
[root@lessfssrv pooldata]# ls -alh /data/current/
total 314G
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root   26 Jun  1 00:12 .
drwxr-xr-x 6 root root   59 Jun  1 00:12 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 314G Jun 22 14:26 blockdata.tch
[root@lessfssrv pooldata]# ls -alh /meta/current/
total 1.4G
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root   63 Jun  1 00:12 .
drwxr-xr-x 6 root root   59 Jun  1 00:12 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1.3G Jun 22 14:52 blockusage.tch
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  89M Jun 22 14:45 dirent.tcb
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  89M Jun 22 14:52 metadata.tcb

Mark.
>
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