On Fri, Aug 04, 2017 at 06:00:58PM +0200, FrantiĊĦek Zatloukal wrote:
Stratis is a management tool that makes it a bit easier to manage all
the layers together.
Another aspect which seems indicative of Red Hat's direction [I have
no inside information on strategy] is the recent acquisition of
Permabit (
http://permabit.com/). AIUI it's a device mapper module
which does some clever data deduplication and/or compression across LVs:
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/06/29/permabit_offering_dedupe_to_linu...
Rich.
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