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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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  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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