Re: Data Deduplication with the help of an online filesystem check

2009-04-27 Thread Thomas Glanzmann
Hello Chris, > There is a btrfs ioctl to clone individual files, and this could be used > to implement an online dedup. But, since it is happening from userland, > you can't lock out all of the other users of a given file. > So, the dedup application would be responsible for making sure a given

Re: Data Deduplication with the help of an online filesystem check

2009-04-27 Thread Chris Mason
On Mon, 2009-04-27 at 05:33 +0200, Thomas Glanzmann wrote: > Hello, > I would like to know if it would be possible to implement the following > feature in btrfs: > > Have an online filesystem check which accounts for possible duplicated > data blocks (maybe with the help of already implemented che