Re: Transparent compression in the FS

[Christopher Li]

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.

Chris
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