On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 03:50:10AM +0100, Benoît Canet wrote:
> As you can read dedup keep me awake at night.
>
> I still think that there is a need for a deduplication implementation
> that would perform nearly as fast as regular qcow2.
>
> I though about this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norma
Hello Stefan,
As you can read dedup keep me awake at night.
I still think that there is a need for a deduplication implementation
that would perform nearly as fast as regular qcow2.
I though about this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normal_distribution.
Not all block are equals for deduplicatio
On 02/08/2013 06:49 AM, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 06, 2013 at 01:31:33PM +0100, Benoît Canet wrote:
>> This patchset create the core infrastructure for deduplication and enable it.
>
> Here is a high-level overview of qcow2 dedup for others reviewing this series:
Awesome. Benoît, how
On Wed, Feb 06, 2013 at 01:31:33PM +0100, Benoît Canet wrote:
> This patchset create the core infrastructure for deduplication and enable it.
Here is a high-level overview of qcow2 dedup for others reviewing this series:
Data structures
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Deduplication adds one new on-disk structur
This patchset create the core infrastructure for deduplication and enable it.
One can compile and install https://github.com/wernerd/Skein3Fish and use the
--enable-skein-dedup configure option in order to use the faster skein HASH.
Images must be created with "-o dedup=[skein|sha256]" in order t