Re: Data De-duplication

2008-12-14 Thread Omen Wild
Quoting Oliver Mattos on Thu, Dec 11 00:18: > > > It would be interesting to see how many duplicate *blocks* there are > > across the filesystem, agnostic to files... Here is my contribution. It's a perl script that goes through every block (of various block sizes) on a device and prints out sum

Re: daily snapshots ?

2008-12-14 Thread devzero
> is there a way to get btrfs-unstable source without using git ? ok, there is gitweb. i didn`t know it has that snapshot-download option... unfortunately, i cannot download btrfs snapshot via kernel.org gitweb trying to fetch http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/mason/btrfs-unstable-

Re: Data De-duplication

2008-12-14 Thread Chris Samuel
On Thu, 11 Dec 2008 8:19:03 am Ray Van Dolson wrote: > I'm not sure why this hasn't caught on, but as soon as a solid and fast > implementation of it exists in the Linux world I really think it can > catch on for VM datastores I know we've hollered at Sun as to why > they haven't rolled it out