Re: Data Deduplication with the help of an online filesystem check

Andrey Kuzmin
2009-05-04T19:16:30Z

On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 10:06 PM, Jan-Frode Myklebust <janfrode@tanso.ne=
t> wrote:
>> Looking at the website content, it also revealed that VMware will ha=
ve a
>> similiar feature for their workhorse ,,esx server'' in the upcoming
>> release, however my point still stands. Ship out a service pack for
>> windows and you 1.5 Gbyte of modified data that is not deduped.
>
> "All desktops that are linked to a master image can be patched or upd=
ated
> =A0simply by updating the master image, without affecting users=92 se=
ttings,
> =A0data or applications."

Writable clone support in the file-system coupled with hierarchical
settings/data/apps layout, and you have what's described above.

Regards,
Andrey

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