*Question for you guys. Someone recently told me about a new set of Linux file systems that include data-deduplication. They sent me an old article from Linux Journal before they stopped printing it and went web only. The article was very informative, except in one aspect. It only dealt with one file system, called lessfs, which (at least the way they showed it) could not be mounted via fstab. You had to run a separate binary to mount it. Has anyone heard of any other file systems that implement data deuplication? I'd be curious to check it out. I think it could be especially handy on my MythTV box because when you get all these commercials over and over the system would only need to store the entire video sequence for the commercial once. That's handy because as an example I was watching Underworld on spike Saturday night and must have seen the same commercials for places like Burger King over and over. If I'm going to record shows I like the idea of not having to save that space. Yes, on a multi-terabyte disk drive space is probably not going to be an issue. But I'd at least like to try it out anyway, IF I can find a file system that includes data-deduplication and can be mounted at boot via fstab/rc.sysinit.*
* * *Thanks!* * * *--- Dan* /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
