Re: Block-level de-duplication?

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On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 11:13:26AM -0400, Ken D'Ambrosio wrote:
> Hey, all.  I'm just wondering if synchronous byte-level de-duplication is
> something that's even on the stove, or if it's just in the nebulous,
> "Yeah, maybe sometime" category?

   Josef posted a prototype deduplicator to this list earlier in the
year, as an RFC. It caused a lot of discussion about what was wanted
in dedup, but I don't think anyone took it any further than that.

   Hugo.

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