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The storage cost for all jpeg files in the world probably doesn't justify a major standards effort. The effort behind converting most of the world from gif to p
by tlb 16y ago
The storage cost for all jpeg files in the world probably doesn't justify a major standards effort. The effort behind converting most of the world from gif to png must have been millions of man hours.
- adamsmith 16y agoThat's a really important question. It should be possible to cross-file de-dup more than just images. One important test to watch will be Ocarina's market success, or lack thereof. EDIT: also, because of the growth of proprietary data stores in the cloud it becomes more and more lucrative to leverage this tech even if it's not a standard. E.g. if you were Amazon S3 compressing redundancies, you use JPEG on your interfaces but use a non-standardized algorithm on your backend.
- jodrellblank 16y agoIt should be possible to cross-file de-dup more than just images. Sit your files on ZFS with dedupe enabled and it will do that to any block-of-data. Not using filetype specific methods like the post describes, but file-agnostic dedupe nonetheless.