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

Andrey Kuzmin
2009-05-04T16:16:20Z

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

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