On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 07:52:20AM +0200, Swâmi Petaramesh wrote: > Hi again list, > > I've seen in a message dating back to january that offline deduplication > has been implemented in BTRFS, but I can't find it in my btrfs-tools > 0.19+20100601-3ubuntu2 > > Has it reached release, or not yet ? How could I give it a try ? > > I've seen a discussion about whether deduplication should be made > offline or online ; my usage case it to backup a number of laptops > having all about the same software and many files in common, to a single > backup server using rsync, I would be very much interested in online > deduplication - because I don't have "n" times the storage space, that > offline dedup might temporarily need, and because performance isn't > crucial for this application, as backups can be done overnight... > > Thanks in advance :-) > So the btrfs-progs patch only exists on the mailing list and the kernel patch is sitting in my git tree. This was more of a weekend project and less of a serious attempt at an actual solution. It could be cleaned up and actually used, but I'm not at all interested in doing that :). Thanks, Josef -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
