On Thu, 11 Dec 2008 8:19:03 am Ray Van Dolson wrote: > I'm not sure why this hasn't caught on, but as soon as a solid and fast > implementation of it exists in the Linux world I really think it can > catch on for VM datastores.... I know we've hollered at Sun as to why > they haven't rolled it out for ZFS yet!
Might NetApp have patented the technique ? Would be a similar situation to the issues [1] that the KSM work [2] fell into with trying to prevent duplication of pages. cheers, Chris [1] - http://lwn.net/Articles/309155/ [2] - http://lwn.net/Articles/306704/ -- Chris Samuel : http://www.csamuel.org/ : Melbourne, VIC This email may come with a PGP signature as a file. Do not panic. For more info see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenPGP -- 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
