From: Ray Van Dolson <rayvd@bludgeon.org>
To: Tracy Reed <treed@tracyreed.org>
Cc: Oliver Mattos <oliver.mattos08@imperial.ac.uk>,
btrfs-devel@arbitraryconstant.com,
Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>,
linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Data De-duplication
Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2008 14:10:07 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081210221006.GA30484@bludgeon.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081210215754.GT23979@tracyreed.org>
On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 01:57:54PM -0800, Tracy Reed wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 09:42:16PM +0000, Oliver Mattos spake thusly:
> > I'm considering writing that script to test on my ext3 disk just to see
> > how much duplicate wasted data I really have.
>
> Check out the fdupes command. In Fedora 8 it is in the yum repo as
> fdupes-1.40-10.fc8
>
Neat tool. I guess this just checks for duplicate files though. It
would be interesting to see how many duplicate *blocks* there are
across the filesystem, agnostic to files...
Is this somthing your script does Oliver?
Ray
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-12-10 22:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-12-09 22:48 Data De-duplication Oliver Mattos
2008-12-10 11:52 ` Miguel Figueiredo Mascarenhas Sousa Filipe
2008-12-10 13:30 ` Chris Mason
2008-12-10 17:53 ` Oliver Mattos
2008-12-11 15:12 ` Chris Mason
[not found] ` <32809.2001:470:e828:1::2:2.1228939660.squirrel@avalon.arbitraryconstant.com>
2008-12-10 21:10 ` Oliver Mattos
2008-12-10 21:19 ` Ray Van Dolson
2008-12-10 21:42 ` Oliver Mattos
2008-12-10 21:57 ` Tracy Reed
2008-12-10 22:06 ` Oliver Mattos
2008-12-10 22:10 ` Ray Van Dolson [this message]
2008-12-11 0:18 ` Oliver Mattos
2008-12-11 3:42 ` Oliver Mattos
2008-12-11 3:50 ` Ray Van Dolson
2008-12-11 9:58 ` Oliver Mattos
2008-12-14 19:37 ` Omen Wild
2008-12-14 12:25 ` Chris Samuel
2008-12-10 13:30 ` seth huang
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