Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 15 Oct 2003 14:00:09 -0700 | From | Christopher Li <> | Subject | Re: Transparent compression in the FS |
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On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 11:13:27AM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: > Josh and others should take a look at Plan9's venti file storage method > -- archival storage is a series of unordered blocks, all of which are > indexed by the sha1 hash of their contents. This magically coalesces
That is cool. I can image it will help versioning file system. I guess it still need to compare the whole block for possible hash collision. I should check it out.
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