[148716] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Megaupload.com seized
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tony McCrory)
Fri Jan 20 15:02:05 2012
In-Reply-To: <4F19C26C.4010909@paulgraydon.co.uk>
Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2012 20:01:15 +0000
From: Tony McCrory <tony.mccrory@gmail.com>
To: Paul Graydon <paul@paulgraydon.co.uk>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 20 January 2012 19:37, Paul Graydon <paul@paulgraydon.co.uk> wrote:
> From what I understand about MegaUpload's approach, they created a hash of
> every file that they stored. If they'd already got a copy of the file that
> was to be uploaded they'd just put an appropriate link in a users space,
> saving them storage space, and bandwidth for both parties.
>
This sounds very similar to data deduplication eg
http://www.netapp.com/uk/products/platform-os/dedupe.html
