dm-vdo/kvdo

A kernel module which provide a pool of deduplicated and/or compressed block storage.

4 mentions on Hacker News by 4 people: 2 stories, 2 comments · first 2017-11-01 · latest 2025-10-01

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…VDO: https://docs.kernel.org/admin-guide/device-mapper/vdo.html (original project URL: https://github.com/dm-vdo/kvdo ) vmess: https://github.com/da-x/vmess
comment by da-x · 2025-10-01 · in Blockdiff: We built our own file format for VM disk snapshots
…for checksums. Take a look at LZ4 source: https://github.com/lz4/lz4/tree/dev/lib VDO LZ4 source: https://github.com/dm-vdo/kvdo/blob/master/vdo/base/lz4.c No LZ4F frame format or checksum in sight.
comment by vardump · 2018-04-18 · in A look at VDO, the new Linux compression layer