Les writes: > I think this will need some sort of atomic-operation reference count > manager at the heart of things so you don't do those lookups except as a > repair step.
Yes. > Will there be a way to disable the de-dup operations completely in the > case where the underlying filesystem does it at the block level? I'd > expect such filesystems to become common and stable within the life of > this backuppc version. Good point. I think I would keep the file-level de-dup since I think it would be pretty efficient. But turning off compression should allow the underlying filesystem to then do a good job on block-level de-dup. Craig ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
