hi bakul, thanks for the quick response.
i did see the thread on zfs but what i remember is a tool rather than a file system. i even remember green letter over black background webpage that talked about this tool (manpage?). i will try for a little more time and then probably give up. regards dharani On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 11:06 PM, Bakul Shah <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. > >
