From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752641AbYFAQKX (ORCPT ); Sun, 1 Jun 2008 12:10:23 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751066AbYFAQKL (ORCPT ); Sun, 1 Jun 2008 12:10:11 -0400 Received: from gprs189-60.eurotel.cz ([160.218.189.60]:3764 "EHLO spitz.ucw.cz" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750936AbYFAQKK (ORCPT ); Sun, 1 Jun 2008 12:10:10 -0400 Date: Sun, 1 Jun 2008 18:09:51 +0200 From: Pavel Machek To: Lars Noschinski Cc: Jiri Kosina , James Bottomley , David Miller , ksummit-2008-discuss@lists.linux-foundation.org, penberg@cs.helsinki.fi, dwmw2@infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: store-same-blocksonce (was Re: [Ksummit-2008-discuss] Fixing the Kernel Janitors project) Message-ID: <20080601160950.GA5555@ucw.cz> References: <1212010931.3445.103.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1212013125.2236.58.camel@shinybook.infradead.org> <1212014127.3445.115.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20080528.230934.131215087.davem@davemloft.net> <1212071813.3428.22.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20080531192120.GA6843@lars.home.noschinski.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080531192120.GA6843@lars.home.noschinski.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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