Re: New feature Idea

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This would be a kind of filesystem block level compression, right?

On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 12:28 PM,  <btrfs-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Don't do it!!!
>>
>> OK, I know Chris has described some block sharing.  But I hate it.
>>
>> If I copy "resume" to "resume.save", it is because I want 2 copies
>> for safety.  I don't want the fs to reduce it to 1 copy.  And
>> reducing the duplicates is exactly opposite to Chris's paranoid
>> make-multiple-copies-by-default.
>>
>> Now feel free to tell me I'm an idiot (other people do) :)
>
> In situations where there's non-trivial benefits to some workloads, but
> also non-trivial drawbacks, it strikes me as something that could be
> enabled and disabled as a mount option, like data=ordered.
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