From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andrey Kuzmin Subject: Re: Data Deduplication with the help of an online filesystem check Date: Mon, 4 May 2009 23:16:30 +0400 Message-ID: <2a31deca0905041216g2a2345c5q4735e151d3e9d456@mail.gmail.com> References: <20090428155900.GA1722@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de> <49F73FC9.3070607@partiallystapled.com> <49FEFBE6.40209@redhat.com> <49FEFE27.5090804@wpkg.org> <49FEFF9A.8060803@redhat.com> <20090504151518.GA13777@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de> <49FF11EE.2060404@redhat.com> <2a31deca0905040916s43b60cf3xdc56d365b5c1d233@mail.gmail.com> <20090504162421.GC13777@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Cc: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org To: Jan-Frode Myklebust Return-path: In-Reply-To: List-ID: On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 10:06 PM, Jan-Frode Myklebust 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 > > > =A0-jf > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs= " in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at =A0http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" = in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html