Hello list.
I have a storage server running ZFS which primarily is used for storing
on-site mirrors of source trees and interesting sites (textfiles.com and
bitsavers.org, for example) and for backups of local machines. There are
several (small) problems with the otherwise ideal picture:
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I was just thinking of a similar feature request: one of the things I'm doing
is hosting vm's. I build a base vm with standard setup in a dedicated
filesystem, then when I need a new instance zfs clone and voila! ready to
start tweaking for the needs of the new instance, using a fraction of
Therefore, I wonder if something like block unification (which seems to be
an old idea, though I know of it primarily through Venti[1]) would be useful
to ZFS. Since ZFS checksums all of the data passing through it, it seems
natural to hook those checksums and have a hash table from checksum
See the long thread titled ZFS deduplication, last active
approximately 2 weeks ago.
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Alan alan at peak.org writes:
I was just thinking of a similar feature request: one of the things
I'm doing is hosting vm's. I build a base vm with standard setup in a
dedicated filesystem, then when I need a new instance zfs clone and voila!
ready to start tweaking for the needs of the new
