On Sat, 2008-10-11 at 19:06 -0700, Ray Van Dolson wrote: > I recall their being a thread here a number of months back regarding > data-deduplication support for bttfs. > > Did anyone end up picking that up and giving a go at it? Block level > data dedup would be *awesome* in a Linux filesystem. It does wonders > for storing virtual machines w/ NetApp and WAFL, and even ZFS doesn't > have this feature yet (although I've read discussions on them looking > to add it). >
So far nobody has grabbed this one, but I've had more requests (no shocker there, the kvm people are interested in it too). It probably won't make 1.0 but the disk format will be able to support it. -chris -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
