From: Andrey Kuzmin <andrey.v.kuzmin@gmail.com>
To: Ric Wheeler <rwheeler@redhat.com>
Cc: Thomas Glanzmann <thomas@glanzmann.de>,
Tomasz Chmielewski <mangoo@wpkg.org>,
Michael Tharp <gxti@partiallystapled.com>,
Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>,
linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Data Deduplication with the help of an online filesystem check
Date: Mon, 4 May 2009 20:16:20 +0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2a31deca0905040916s43b60cf3xdc56d365b5c1d233@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49FF11EE.2060404@redhat.com>
On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 8:03 PM, Ric Wheeler <rwheeler@redhat.com> wrote=
:
> Thomas Glanzmann wrote:
>
> I think that Chris already mentioned that you can (for virt OS images=
) also
> imagine using copy on write snapshots (of something that is mostly re=
ad-only
> like the OS system partitions). =A0Make 50 copy-on-write snapshots of=
"/"
> (excluding /home) and you have an effective compression of 98% until =
someone
> rudely starts writing at least :-)
>
As far as I understand, VMware already ships this "gold image" feature
(as they call it) for Windows environments and claims it to be very
efficient.
Regards,
Andrey
> ric
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-05-04 16:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 67+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-04-27 3:33 Data Deduplication with the help of an online filesystem check Thomas Glanzmann
2009-04-27 13:37 ` Chris Mason
2009-04-28 5:22 ` Thomas Glanzmann
2009-04-28 10:02 ` Chris Mason
2009-04-28 13:49 ` Andrey Kuzmin
2009-04-28 13:58 ` Chris Mason
2009-04-28 14:04 ` Thomas Glanzmann
2009-04-28 17:21 ` Chris Mason
2009-04-28 20:10 ` Thomas Glanzmann
2009-04-28 20:29 ` Thomas Glanzmann
2009-04-28 13:58 ` jim owens
2009-04-28 16:10 ` Anthony Roberts
2009-04-28 15:59 ` Thomas Glanzmann
2009-04-28 16:04 ` Tomasz Chmielewski
2009-04-28 17:29 ` Edward Shishkin
2009-04-28 17:34 ` Thomas Glanzmann
2009-04-28 17:38 ` Chris Mason
2009-04-28 17:43 ` Thomas Glanzmann
2009-04-28 17:45 ` Heinz-Josef Claes
2009-04-28 20:16 ` Thomas Glanzmann
2009-04-28 20:36 ` Heinz-Josef Claes
2009-04-28 20:52 ` Thomas Glanzmann
2009-04-28 20:58 ` Chris Mason
2009-04-28 21:12 ` Thomas Glanzmann
2009-04-28 21:26 ` Chris Mason
2009-04-28 22:14 ` Thomas Glanzmann
2009-04-28 23:18 ` Chris Mason
2009-04-29 12:03 ` Thomas Glanzmann
2009-04-29 13:11 ` Michael Tharp
2009-04-29 13:14 ` Chris Mason
2009-04-29 13:58 ` Thomas Glanzmann
2009-04-29 14:31 ` Chris Mason
2009-04-29 15:26 ` Thomas Glanzmann
2009-04-29 15:45 ` Chris Mason
2009-06-04 8:49 ` Thomas Glanzmann
2009-06-04 11:43 ` Chris Mason
2009-06-04 12:03 ` Thomas Glanzmann
2009-06-04 12:43 ` Chris Mason
2009-06-05 12:20 ` Tomasz Chmielewski
2009-06-05 12:50 ` Chris Mason
2009-06-05 15:35 ` Tomasz Chmielewski
2009-04-29 0:06 ` Bron Gondwana
2009-05-06 15:16 ` Sander
2009-04-28 17:32 ` Thomas Glanzmann
2009-04-28 17:41 ` Michael Tharp
2009-04-28 20:14 ` Thomas Glanzmann
2009-05-04 14:29 ` Ric Wheeler
2009-05-04 14:39 ` Tomasz Chmielewski
2009-05-04 14:45 ` Ric Wheeler
2009-05-04 15:15 ` Thomas Glanzmann
2009-05-04 16:03 ` Ric Wheeler
2009-05-04 16:16 ` Andrey Kuzmin [this message]
2009-05-04 16:24 ` Thomas Glanzmann
2009-05-04 18:06 ` Jan-Frode Myklebust
2009-05-04 19:16 ` Andrey Kuzmin
2009-05-05 8:02 ` Thomas Glanzmann
2009-05-04 16:26 ` Thomas Glanzmann
2009-05-04 19:11 ` Heinz-Josef Claes
2009-05-04 21:29 ` Dmitri Nikulin
2009-05-05 7:18 ` Heinz-Josef Claes
2009-05-24 7:27 ` Thomas Glanzmann
2009-04-28 17:23 ` Chris Mason
2009-04-28 17:37 ` Thomas Glanzmann
2009-04-28 17:43 ` Chris Mason
2009-04-28 20:15 ` Thomas Glanzmann
2009-04-28 21:19 ` Dmitri Nikulin
2009-04-28 20:24 ` Thomas Glanzmann
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