Re: [Beowulf] dedupe filesystem

2009-06-02 Thread Matt Lawrence
On Tue, 2 Jun 2009, John Hearns wrote: I'm quite interested in this discussion. De-duplication seems to be all the rage in 'corporate IT'. Surely the purpose is mainly to deal with storing many copies of the same emails (or Excel files... etc.) I have found a great deaal of duplication in inst

Re: [Beowulf] dedupe filesystem

2009-06-02 Thread Nifty Tom Mitchell
On Tue, Jun 02, 2009 at 06:39:40PM +0100, Ashley Pittman wrote: > On Tue, 2009-06-02 at 12:34 -0400, Michael Di Domenico wrote: > > does anyone have an opinion on dedup'ing files on a filesystem, but > > not in the context of backups? I did a google search for a program, > > but only seemed to fin

Re: [Beowulf] dedupe filesystem

2009-06-02 Thread Ashley Pittman
On Tue, 2009-06-02 at 12:34 -0400, Michael Di Domenico wrote: > does anyone have an opinion on dedup'ing files on a filesystem, but > not in the context of backups? I did a google search for a program, > but only seemed to find the big players in the context of backups and > block levels. i just

Re: [Beowulf] dedupe filesystem

2009-06-02 Thread John Hearns
I'm quite interested in this discussion. De-duplication seems to be all the rage in 'corporate IT'. Surely the purpose is mainly to deal with storing many copies of the same emails (or Excel files... etc.) In HPC one would hope that all files are different, so de-duplication would not be a feature

[Beowulf] dedupe filesystem

2009-06-02 Thread Michael Di Domenico
does anyone have an opinion on dedup'ing files on a filesystem, but not in the context of backups? I did a google search for a program, but only seemed to find the big players in the context of backups and block levels. i just need a file level check and report. Is scanning the filesystem and md

Re: [Beowulf] Problems with nvidia driver

2009-06-02 Thread John Hearns
2009/5/26 Francesco Pietra : > Hi > Is it 3D feasible with NV11DDR (GeForce2 MX200 rev b2) cip and 32bit > linux (debian i386)? I met failure by doing You would be much better asking for support from Nvidia directly, or on the Nvidia forums www.nvnews.net I do not use Debian, so cannot help you d