Jim Klimov wrote: > Ok, thank you Nils, Wade for the concise replies. > > After much reading I agree that the ZFS-development queued features do > deserve a higher ranking on the priority list (pool-shrinking/disk-removal > and user/group quotas would be my favourites), so probably the deduplication > tool I'd need would, indeed, probably be some community-contributed script > which does many hash-checks in zone-root file systems and does what Nils > described to calculate the most-common "template" filesystem and derive zone > roots as minimal changes to it. > > Does anybody with a wider awareness know of such readily-available scripts on > some blog? :) > > Does some script-usable ZFS API (if any) provide for fetching block/file > hashes (checksums) stored in the filesystem itself? In fact, am I wrong to > expect file-checksums to be readily available? >
Yes. Files are not checksummed, blocks are checksummed. -- richard _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
