On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 01:04:23PM +0200, Folkert van Heusden wrote: > > I'm interested in setting up a FUSE-like infrastructure in userspace that > > will > > use NBD and allow people to develop virtual block devices without having to > > write any kernel code. For example, one of the things I would like to do is > > create a deduplicating block device, and it would be easiest if I could > > Dedupping block device? Something like http://vanheusden.com/java/BlackHole/ ?
Yes, actually I have already come across BlackHole, which seems to be very similar to what I want to do. But I was hoping to try for higher performance by doing the deduplication locally and in the kernel, using the device mapper. (That is, after I prototype it in userspace using nbd.) -- Adam Cozzette Harvey Mudd College Class of 2012 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. Business sense. IT sense. Common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2dcopy1 _______________________________________________ Nbd-general mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nbd-general
