Monthly Archives: December, 2010
Block-level Inline Data Deduplication in ext3
For our class project in advanced operating systems, Kris and I took our first foray into Linux kernel programing. We added block deduplication to ext3, a popular filesystem for Linux. The goal is to reduce the number of writes and to save space on the disk. This could be useful for Solid State Disks, where writes are slow [...]