Re: [9fans] FS to skip/put-together duplicate files

["Gabriel Diaz" <gabidiaz@gmail.com>]

hello

i think venti compression works at block level, so if the file
contents are the same you will have two files with references to the
same blocks, but read venti paper to be sure :)

slds.

gabi


On 8/10/07, Enrico Weigelt <weigelt@metux.de> wrote:
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> Hi folks,
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> I'm host a lot of web applications which share 99% of their code.
> Disk space is not the issue, but bandwidth on remote backup.
> So my idea is to let an filesystem automatically link together
> equal files in the storage, but present them as separate ones.
> Once an file gets changed, it will be unlinked/copied automatically.
>
> Is there already such an filesystem ?
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>
> thx
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