Comments on milek's blog: ZFS De-Duplication

Scheduled??? who would want their de-dup done at a...

2009-08-26T18:28:39.946+02:00

Scheduled??? who would want their de-dup done at a specific time.. In addition, that would require more storage to hold the data and the de-duped data aswell. Inline de-duping is the only way to go!

Jeff and Bill will be presenting a keynote speech ...

2009-05-18T11:02:00.000+02:00

Jeff and Bill will be presenting a keynote speech about ZFS deduplication at Kernel Conference Australia, in Brisbane in July 2009.

"Which community are you part of? Home users?"I wo...

2009-03-12T12:30:00.000+01:00

"Which community are you part of? Home users?"

I would guess the NetApp one that's looking to save costs maybe? I know I am.

"we as a community don't absolutely need "all the ...

2008-10-02T20:21:00.000+02:00

"we as a community don't absolutely need "all the time" deduplication." -Anon.

Which community are you part of? Home users?

To gain acceptance in mid through enterprise level dedupe needs to happen all the time as part of the file system?

Furthermore, we as a community don't absolutely ne...

2008-06-27T17:34:00.000+02:00

Furthermore, we as a community don't absolutely need "all the time" deduplication. Scheduled, limited-time deduplication, like "run for an hour at 1AM" would be both tractable and useful in many environments.

Full by-for-byte comparisons all the time will be ...

2008-04-16T11:33:00.000+02:00

Full by-for-byte comparisons all the time will be slow but this can be avoided. Compare only checksums and if the checksums match then do a byte-for-byte comparison to be sure. Safe and less performance overhead.