Re: [ANNOUNCE] Btrfs: a copy on write, snapshotting FS

[Vladislav Bolkhovitin <vst@vlnb.net>]

david@lang.hm wrote:
> > > > 3. De-de-duplicate blocks on disk, i.e. copy them on write
> > > > > I suppose that de-duplication itself would be done by some user 
> > > space
> > > > process that would scan files, determine blocks with the same data and
> > > > then de-duplicate them by using syscall or IOCTL (2).
> > > > > That would be very usable feature, which in most cases would 
> > > allow to
> > > > shrink occupied disk space on 50-90%.
> > >
> > >  Have you references for this number?
> >
> >
> > No, I've seen it somewhere and it well confirms with my own observations.
> >
> > >  In my experience one gets a lot of benefit from
> > >  the much simpler process of "de-duplication" of files.
> >
> >
> > Yes, sure, de-duplication on files level brings its benefits, but on 
> > FS blocks level it would bring ever more benefits, because there are 
> > many more or less big files, which are different as a whole, but with 
> > a lot of the same blocks. Simple example of such files is UNIX-style 
> > mail boxes on a mail server.
>
>
> unix style mail boxes would not be a good example of wins for 
> sector-based de-duplication since the duplicate mail is not going to be 
> sector aligned.

Yes, I realized that after I sent the e-mail. Handling of the same, but 
not aligned, data in different files would need more complex logic. 
Maybe too complex.

Vlad
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