On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 12:15 PM, Josef Bacik <jo...@redhat.com> wrote: > Yeah for things where you are talking about sending it over the network or > something like that every little bit helps. I think deduplication is far more > interesting and usefull at an application level than at a filesystem level. > For > example with a mail server, there is a good chance that the files will be > smaller than a blocksize and not be able to be deduped, but if the application > that was storing them recognized that it had the same messages and just linked > everything in its own stuff then that would be cool. Thanks,
Cyrus IMAP and Zimbra (probably a lot of others) already do that, hard-linking identical message bodies. The e-mail server use-case is for dedupe is pretty much covered already. -- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
