From: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
To: Ray Van Dolson <rayvd@bludgeon.org>
Cc: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Data-deduplication?
Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2008 07:02:14 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1223895734.7032.1.camel@think.oraclecorp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081012020629.GA14615@bludgeon.org>
On Sat, 2008-10-11 at 19:06 -0700, Ray Van Dolson wrote:
> I recall their being a thread here a number of months back regarding
> data-deduplication support for bttfs.
>
> Did anyone end up picking that up and giving a go at it? Block level
> data dedup would be *awesome* in a Linux filesystem. It does wonders
> for storing virtual machines w/ NetApp and WAFL, and even ZFS doesn't
> have this feature yet (although I've read discussions on them looking
> to add it).
>
So far nobody has grabbed this one, but I've had more requests (no
shocker there, the kvm people are interested in it too). It probably
won't make 1.0 but the disk format will be able to support it.
-chris
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-10-13 11:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-12 2:06 Data-deduplication? Ray Van Dolson
2008-10-13 8:52 ` Data-deduplication? Andi Kleen
2008-10-15 13:39 ` Data-deduplication? Avi Kivity
2008-10-15 14:15 ` Data-deduplication? Andi Kleen
2008-10-15 14:43 ` Data-deduplication? Miguel Sousa Filipe
2008-10-15 15:00 ` Data-deduplication? Andi Kleen
2008-10-15 17:49 ` Data-deduplication? Avi Kivity
2008-10-13 11:02 ` Chris Mason [this message]
2008-10-16 19:25 ` Data-deduplication? Valerie Aurora Henson
2008-10-16 19:30 ` Data-deduplication? Chris Mason
2008-10-17 18:24 ` Data-deduplication? Valerie Aurora Henson
2008-10-20 0:16 ` Data-deduplication? Chris Mason
2008-10-21 20:33 ` Data-deduplication? Valerie Aurora Henson
2008-10-17 20:10 ` Data-deduplication? Christoph Hellwig
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