Hi all, I have been reading the discussion about a possible disk-only bacula-sd with adapted Volume format for disk specific storage.
As I understand it, the current Volume format is strictly serial, which means that there is no block alignment for file content within the Volume, which also means that any support for block-level de-duplication in the underlying file-system will not be effective. It would be preferable for the SD to accumulate metadata and file tails in a leader block, flush when full together with the associated [block aligned] full blocks of file content; repeat as needed. I am spending some considerable time at the moment getting to grips with how Bacula works, so that I can implement some of the ideas that I have, and finding that not an easy job ... Regards, Howard Thomson PS There was recent news about a de-duplication FUSE file-system project on Sourceforge ... -- "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." -- Albert Einstein ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Bacula-devel mailing list Bacula-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-devel
