Re: [GIT PULL] Btrfs

Ric Wheeler
2013-09-13T13:07:51Z

On 09/12/2013 11:36 AM, Chris Mason wrote:
> Mark Fasheh's offline dedup work is also here. In this case offline
> means the FS is mounted and active, but the dedup work is not done
> inline during file IO. This is a building block where utilities are
> able to ask the FS to dedup a series of extents. The kernel takes
> care of verifying the data involved really is the same. Today this
> involves reading both extents, but we'll continue to evolve the patches.

Nice feature!

Just a note, the "offline" label is really confusing. In other storage products,
they typically call this "out of band" since you are online but not during the
actual write in a synchronous way :)

Ric