Hi, On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 09:28:09PM +0200, Florian Lindner wrote: > Hello, > > some questions regarding btrfs deduplication. > > - What is the state of it? Is it "safe" to use? > https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Deduplication does not yield > much information. For inband dedup, it's experimental because it introduces some format changes. > > - https://pypi.python.org/pypi/bedup says: "bedup looks for new and > changed files, making sure that multiple copies of identical files > share space on disk. It integrates deeply with btrfs so that scans are > incremental and low-impact." > > Is is file-based deduplcation only or is there also a block-based > mode? Does not seem so according to the docs. Both inband dedup and offband dedup patchset are floating on the list, and inband is block-based, but I'm not sure about offband dedup. -liubo > > If so, what is the advantage to numerous other tools that replace > duplicates by hard links? Performance? > > Thanks, > > Florian > -- > 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 -- 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
