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Network Automation'Only The Blocks That Have Changed' And Other Platitudes'Only The Blocks That Have Changed' And Other Platitudes
Many of the technologies we've come to rely on in the storage world nowadays use one form or another of changed block tracking. Snapshots, replication (especially the point-in-time kind), automated tiering and data deduplication all work by identifying changed, or different, blocks and treating them in some special way. The problem is that while parts may be parts, blocks are most definitely not blocks.
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