From: Chris Samuel <chris@csamuel.org>
To: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Data De-duplication
Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2008 23:25:21 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200812142325.24073.chris@csamuel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081210211903.GA29002@bludgeon.org>
On Thu, 11 Dec 2008 8:19:03 am Ray Van Dolson wrote:
> I'm not sure why this hasn't caught on, but as soon as a solid and fast
> implementation of it exists in the Linux world I really think it can
> catch on for VM datastores.... I know we've hollered at Sun as to why
> they haven't rolled it out for ZFS yet!
Might NetApp have patented the technique ?
Would be a similar situation to the issues [1] that the KSM work [2] fell into
with trying to prevent duplication of pages.
cheers,
Chris
[1] - http://lwn.net/Articles/309155/
[2] - http://lwn.net/Articles/306704/
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-12-14 12:25 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
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 [this message]
2008-12-10 13:30 ` seth huang
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