Hello Andrey, > 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.
they call it ,,thin or shallow clones'' and ship it with desktop virtualization (one vm per thinclient user) and for VMware lab manager. Looking at the website content, it also revealed that VMware will have a similiar feature for their workhorse ,,esx server'' in the upcoming release, however my point still stands. Ship out a service pack for windows and you 1.5 Gbyte of modified data that is not deduped. Because that is a once in VMs life opportunity. Thomas -- 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