Alan peak.org> writes:
>
> I was just thinking of a similar "feature request": one of the things
> I'm doing is hosting vm's. I build a base vm with standard setup in a
> dedicated filesystem, then when I need a new instance "zfs clone" and voila!
> ready to start tweaking for the needs of the n
See the long thread titled "ZFS deduplication", last active
approximately 2 weeks ago.
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> Therefore, I wonder if something like block unification (which seems to be
> an old idea, though I know of it primarily through Venti[1]) would be useful
> to ZFS. Since ZFS checksums all of the data passing through it, it seems
> natural to hook those checksums and have a hash table from checks
I was just thinking of a similar "feature request": one of the things I'm doing
is hosting vm's. I build a base vm with standard setup in a dedicated
filesystem, then when I need a new instance "zfs clone" and voila! ready to
start tweaking for the needs of the new instance, using a fraction o
