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Date: Mon,  5 Jan 2009 21:06:27 -0800
From: Roman Shaposhnik <rvs@sun.com>
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To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Changelogs & Patches?
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On Jan 4, 2009, at 9:12 PM, erik quanstrom wrote:
>> Well, I guess I really got spoiled by ZFS's ability to do things like
>>    $ zfs snapshot pool/projects/foo@YourTextGoesHere
>> and especially:
>>    $ zfs clone pool/projects/foo@YourTextGoesHere pool/projects/
>> branch
>>
>> I'm still trying to figure out what kind of approximation of the
>> above
>> would be possible with fossil/venti.
>
> how about making a copy?  venti will coalesce duplicate blocks.

But wouldn't you still need to send these blocks over the wire (thus
consuming bandwidth and time)?

Thanks,
Roman.