Re: Offline Deduplication for Btrfs

2011-01-06 Thread Simon Farnsworth
to move it entirely into the kernel. Just don't think that this ioctl rules out online dedupe - in fact, it enables it. -- Simon Farnsworth -- 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

Re: Offline Deduplication for Btrfs

2011-01-06 Thread Simon Farnsworth
Gordan Bobic wrote: Simon Farnsworth wrote: The basic idea is to use fanotify/inotify (whichever of the notification systems works for this) to track which inodes have been written to. It can then mmap() the changed data (before it's been dropped from RAM) and do the same process

Re: [PATCH] Btrfs: add extent-same ioctl for dedup

2011-01-05 Thread Simon Farnsworth
content in place, it's a really bad problem. -- Here's hoping I simply missed something, Simon Farnsworth -- 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