Re: Data-deduplication?

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Ray Van Dolson <rayvd@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> I recall their being a thread here a number of months back regarding
> data-deduplication support for bttfs.
>
> Did anyone end up picking that up and giving a go at it?  Block level
> data dedup would be *awesome* in a Linux filesystem.  It does wonders
> for storing virtual machines w/ NetApp and WAFL, and even ZFS doesn't
> have this feature yet (although I've read discussions on them looking
> to add it).

There are some patches to do in QEMU's cow format for KVM. That's
user level only.

-Andi
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