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Unless you use version control. Perforce, source safe, git, and subversion, all "dedupe" their own data. They're not all brilliant about it (try committing a co
by wizard_2 17y ago
Unless you use version control. Perforce, source safe, git, and subversion, all "dedupe" their own data. They're not all brilliant about it (try committing a copy of a large file in subversion without using `svn cp`) but zfs dedupe will be of little value on these servers. (I left out cvs because I absolutely have no idea what it does on the server.)
The real value (and the content of many EMC sales pitches) is with backing up and archiving data. EMC often argues that most "corporate" data seems not to change very much over time.
- Rexxar 17y ago> Unless you use version control I don't see how version control avoid file duplication. When you work on multiple branches at the same time. You necessarily have to retrieve each branch in different directories.
- lallysingh 17y agoThey don't store full copies of each revision.
- jongraehl 17y agoI'm not sure what fool voted you down, but I fixed that. He's talking about local (checked out), not repository, copies.