Re: Transparent compression in the FS

[Jeff Garzik]

P@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> I thought a bit about this also and thought
> that in general the overhead of instant block/file
> duplicate merging is not worth it. Periodic
> post processing with a merging tool is
> much more efficient IMHO. Of course this is
> now only possible at the file level, but this

The sha1 hash method used by plan9 works at the block level.  venti 
_automatically_ coalesces duplicate blocks, without extra effort, simply 
by design.

	Jeff



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