I think deduplication is kind of overrated and impractical. As was pointed out several times in the EFI thread: big, fast drives are cheap. So what if there are two or three copies of a file on a backup set? The dedup overhead is more costly than the storage.
Where deduplication starts becoming practical is at the large scale such as enterprise backups for an entire fleet of workstations. Deduplicating a few dozen files is impractical. Deduplcating the backups of thousands of workstations all running the same base OS is a different story. Aside: The ext# family don't have CoW capability so dupremove can't work on them. -- \m/ (--) \m/ _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.blu.org https://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
