From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 14 Oct 2010 22:35:57 PDT."
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From: Bakul Shah <bakul+plan9@bitblocks.com>
Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2010 23:06:13 -0700
Message-Id: <20101015060614.126915B60@mail.bitblocks.com>
Subject: Re: [9fans] de-duplication/archival software
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On Thu, 14 Oct 2010 22:35:57 PDT Tharaneedharan Vilwanathan <vdharani@gmail.com>  wrote:
> hi,
>
> about a year back, someone mentioned about a tool or utility for
> archiving/storage like venti. it has de-duplication and uses hashing
> mechanism. i think it runs on linux mainly. can someone give me some
> details on this if you remember?

May be one of things mentioned on the the wikipedia article
on data duplication?

Note that ZFS now has de-duplication. It uses a crypto hash
as a checksum but not as a block id as in venti. ZFS runs on
(Open)Solaris and FreeBSD (not on the released version
though) and on top of FUSE on Linux.