Zfs deduplication is strictly block-based. What you are describing would involve interpreting the data, as a stream of bytes, and trying to find patterns in it.
I am guessing that this could not be done at anywhere near the performance that a block-level scheme, such as zfs dedup is capable of. best wishes, Steve -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ zfs-code mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-code
