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From: Tharaneedharan Vilwanathan <vdharani@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] de-duplication/archival software
Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2010 23:16:54 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTimQiqYixrzaLPomvyTFDXTzAnXuLfxwuctTcTiR@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101015060614.126915B60@mail.bitblocks.com>

hi bakul,

thanks for the quick response.

i did see the thread on zfs but what i remember is a tool rather than
a file system. i even remember green letter over black background
webpage that talked about this tool (manpage?). i will try for a
little more time and then probably give up.

regards
dharani

On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 11:06 PM, Bakul Shah <bakul+plan9@bitblocks.com> wrote:
> 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.
>
>



  reply	other threads:[~2010-10-15  6:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-10-15  5:35 Tharaneedharan Vilwanathan
2010-10-15  6:06 ` Bakul Shah
2010-10-15  6:16   ` Tharaneedharan Vilwanathan [this message]
2010-10-15 10:20 ` Thomas Östreicher
2010-10-15 18:23   ` Tharaneedharan Vilwanathan
2010-10-15 11:49 ` Enrico Weigelt
2010-10-15 19:07   ` Nathaniel W Filardo

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