> This may also be accomplished by using snapshots and > clones of data > sets. At least for OS images: user profiles and > documents could be > something else entirely.
Yes... but that will need a manager with access to zfs itself... but with dedupe you can use a userland manager (much more flexible) > > Another situation that comes to mind is perhaps as > the back-end to a > mail store: if you send out a message(s) with an > attachment(s) to a > lot of people, the attachment blocks could be deduped > (and perhaps > compressed as well, since base-64 adds 1/3 overhead). > > _______________________________________________ > zfs-discuss mailing list > zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discu > ss > -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
