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de-duplication in filesystems

de-duplication in filesystems

Posted Jul 22, 2006 3:43 UTC (Sat) by JumpJoe (guest, #39288)
In reply to: de-duplication in filesystems by nix
Parent article: The 2006 Linux Filesystems Workshop (Part III)

Not sure what level the deduplication is being done however:
www.datadomain.com

Other companies are doing deduplication above the filesystem layer (CAS)

http://searchstorage.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289...

Yes, it would be great to have a compression/deduplication built into a filesystem.


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