Re: [CentOS] block level changes at the file system level?

Lists wrote:

On 07/02/2014 12:57 PM, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:

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I think the buzzword you want is dedup.

dedup works at the file level. Here we're talking about files that are highly similar but not identical. I don't want to rewrite an entire file that's 99% identical to the new file form, I just want to write a small set of changes. I'd use ZFS to keep track of which blocks change over time.

I've been asking around, and it seems this capability doesn't exist *anywhere*.

I was under the impression from a few years ago that at least the then-commercial versions operated at the block level, *not* at the file level. rsync works at the file level, and dedup is supposed to be fancier.

mark