linux-kernel - store-same-blocksonce (was Re: [Ksummit-2008-discuss] Fixing the Kernel Janitors project)

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Message-ID: <20080601160950.GA5555@ucw.cz>
Date:	Sun, 1 Jun 2008 18:09:51 +0200
From:	Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
To:	Lars Noschinski <lars@...lic.noschinski.de>
Cc:	Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>,
	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...senPartnership.com>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	ksummit-2008-discuss@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
	penberg@...helsinki.fi, dwmw2@...radead.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: store-same-blocksonce (was Re: [Ksummit-2008-discuss] Fixing the Kernel Janitors project)

Hi!

> The project I was later involved on was writing a file 
> system, which
> stores blocks with the same content only once. In a two 
> months period
> (with other lectures to attend to), we managed to 
> produce such a thing;
> but it was very unreliable (which reminds me, I am 
> supposed to publish
> the results of this project here)

Yep, sounds like a cool project, actually. I guess it could be very
useful for people like me that store many kernel trees around, and
sometimes run out of  disk space.
							Pavel
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