On 12/28/2011 10:12 PM, Liu Yuan wrote: > On 12/28/2011 09:09 PM, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > >> On Sun, Dec 25, 2011 at 11:42:46PM +0800, Liu Yuan wrote: >>> - auto checksumed snapshot objects >> >> Did you ever look into using the auto compression/checksum feature also >> for regular data objects? While it might not be optimal for some >> workload it seems like a useful feature when we might want automatic >> data de-duplication and/or have a read mostly workload. A typical >> example would be base images for the OS disk which are shared by a lot >> of VMs and might even get the same kind of modifications to them. >> If we really need this feature inside Farm, I can accept it whoever implement this feature in Farm, if Farm could dynamically choose callbacks how to read/write regular objects. Thanks, Yuan |