> Block level deduplication isn't going to know/care about the > difference between file contents and metadata. It is either stored in > blocks that match other blocks or not and the difference should not be > visible to the filesystem living on top of the block device. > Exactly. And this is why lessfs can easily write files with speeds up to 200MB~300MB/sec on modern hardware. Mark. _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/