[Users] deduplication

[Jiri Belka]

On Tue, 28 May 2013 13:00:36 +0200
Jiri Belka <jbelka at redhat.com> wrote:

> On Sat, 25 May 2013 15:02:40 +0100 (WEST)
> suporte at logicworks.pt wrote:
> 
> > is deduplication possible? 

> If we would talk about OSS systems then Dragon Fly BSD's hammerfs or
> Open Indiana ZFS (FreeBSD has it too) support deduplication and such
> filesystems are exported as NFS (so can be used as data domain).

If you would not use Linux (as they broke having /usr as separate
filesystem) and you would design your unix-like VMs correctly, you can
share a disk containing "static" data like /usr, /usr/local between
VMs as a kind of "deduplication" without being "trapped" by buzzword
technologies.

j.