On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 5:54 PM, Howard Thomson <howard.thom...@dial.pipex.com> wrote: > 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 ... >
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