Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 1 Jun 2008 18:09:51 +0200 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | store-same-blocksonce (was Re: [Ksummit-2008-discuss] Fixing the Kernel Janitors project) |
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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 -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html
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