From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <20120113113026.GA419@polynum.com> <20120113133836.GA484@polynum.com> <20120113140834.GA849@polynum.com> <20120113160142.GA98@polynum.com> <20120113171734.77a40595@wks-ddc.exosec.local> <20120113164101.GB647@polynum.com> <4a3253f1f2669e02ba348dd33fe81688@coraid.com> <20120113175801.GB1890@polynum.com> Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2012 00:14:25 +0100 Message-ID: From: Francisco J Ballesteros To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: [9fans] fossil pb: FOUND! Topicbox-Message-UUID: 5b0f7694-ead7-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 but if you insert extra music in front of your track dedup in venti won't h= elp. or would it? On Sat, Jan 14, 2012 at 12:10 AM, Aram H=C4=83v=C4=83rneanu = wrote: > erik quanstrom wrote: >> an extra copy or 100 of the distribution >> will be <1% of a new hard drive, even with >> no de-dup. > > Sure, but there's other data than that. I do music, as a hobby. =C2=A0A > project for an electronic track can have 20GB because everything I use > is "statically linked" into it. =C2=A0Doing it this way has all the > advantages static linking for binaries has. > > When your tracks have 20GB but 90% the data is shared, and you keep > full history for your track, dedup becomes invaluable. > > -- > Aram H=C4=83v=C4=83rneanu >