From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:47059 "EHLO plane.gmane.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754564Ab3HWKKE (ORCPT ); Fri, 23 Aug 2013 06:10:04 -0400 Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VCoJf-0007zM-Ew for linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org; Fri, 23 Aug 2013 12:10:03 +0200 Received: from gw.corp.inasset.net ([82.193.33.243]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 23 Aug 2013 12:10:03 +0200 Received: from michele by gw.corp.inasset.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 23 Aug 2013 12:10:03 +0200 To: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org From: mpe Subject: Re: Deduplication Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2013 12:04:10 +0200 Message-ID: References: <20130823074236.GA2229@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed In-Reply-To: <20130823074236.GA2229@localhost.localdomain> Sender: linux-btrfs-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 23/08/2013 09:42, Liu Bo wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 09:28:09PM +0200, Florian Lindner wrote: >> Hello, >> >> some questions regarding btrfs deduplication. >> >> - What is the state of it? Is it "safe" to use? >> https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Deduplication does not yield >> much information. > > For inband dedup, it's experimental because it introduces some format changes. > In our tests we are trying btrfs for our internal storage backup backend and we like a lot compression! Now would like to test inband dedup. Does those patchs (are v6 the last?) can be used on ubuntu lts? Do have a simple howt-to to follow? Thanks, Michele