On Thu, 14 Oct 2010 22:35:57 PDT Tharaneedharan Vilwanathan <[email protected]> wrote: > hi, > > about a year back, someone mentioned about a tool or utility for > archiving/storage like venti. it has de-duplication and uses hashing > mechanism. i think it runs on linux mainly. can someone give me some > details on this if you remember?
May be one of things mentioned on the the wikipedia article on data duplication? Note that ZFS now has de-duplication. It uses a crypto hash as a checksum but not as a block id as in venti. ZFS runs on (Open)Solaris and FreeBSD (not on the released version though) and on top of FUSE on Linux.
