Re: Why is dedup inline, not delayed (as opposed to offline)? Explain like I'm five pls.
From: Al <hidden>
Date: 2016-01-20 14:49:53
From: Al <hidden>
Date: 2016-01-20 14:49:53
Rich Freeman <r-btrfs <at> thefreemanclan.net> writes:
I think he is actually suggesting a hybrid approach where a bit of effort is done during operations to greatly streamline out-of-line deduplication. I'm not sure how close we are to that already, or if any room for improvement remains. --
Hopefully, we can tweak the split between in-memory and on blkdev. I don't see myself needing in-memory much (cc'd email with attachments perhaps?).