On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 8:03 PM, Ric Wheeler <rwhee...@redhat.com> wrote: > Thomas Glanzmann wrote: > > I think that Chris already mentioned that you can (for virt OS images) also > imagine using copy on write snapshots (of something that is mostly read-only > like the OS system partitions). Make 50 copy-on-write snapshots of "/" > (excluding /home) and you have an effective compression of 98% until someone > rudely starts writing at least :-) >
As far as I understand, VMware already ships this "gold image" feature (as they call it) for Windows environments and claims it to be very efficient. Regards, Andrey > ric > > > -- > 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 > -- 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
