[dm-devel] [PATCH v2 00/39] Add the dm-vdo deduplication and compression device mapper target.

Eric Biggers ebiggers at kernel.org
Tue May 23 22:40:47 UTC 2023


On Tue, May 23, 2023 at 05:45:00PM -0400, J. corwin Coburn wrote:
> The dm-vdo target provides inline deduplication, compression, zero-block
> elimination, and thin provisioning. A dm-vdo target can be backed by up to
> 256TB of storage, and can present a logical size of up to 4PB. This target
> was originally developed at Permabit Technology Corp. starting in 2009. It
> was first released in 2013 and has been used in production environments
> ever since. It was made open-source in 2017 after Permabit was acquired by
> Red Hat.

As with any kernel patchset, please mention the git commit that it applies to.
This can be done using the --base option to 'git format-patch'.

- Eric



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