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Hi,</div><div style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br></div><div style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">
on <a href="https://git.proxmox.com/?p=proxmox-backup.git;a=blob;f=src/backup.rs;h=cca438818b49724e10594ae2e12302f5fbf021df;hb=HEAD" id="LPlnk107675">
https://git.proxmox.com/?p=proxmox-backup.git;a=blob;f=src/backup.rs;h=cca438818b49724e10594ae2e12302f5fbf021df;hb=HEAD</a> I saw, that besides the currently implemented atime based garbage collection approach, another approach using hashes in memory is under
investigation.</div><div style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br></div><div style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">
I couldn't find any references besides the lines under that link. Is this investigation still ongoing? Is there any publicly available source?</div><div style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br></div><div style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">
We use a CephFS as datastore in our test environment and this is rather slow because of the metadata updates. The in-memory based approach could possibly make a huge difference for CephFS based datastores.</div><div style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br></div><div style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">
Thanks,</div><div style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">
Marco</div><div style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br></div><div style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">
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