[zfs-code] ZFS and deduplication?

Marc Glisse
Sat, 04 Apr 2009 22:19:26 -0000

> Yes -- dedup is my (and Bill''s) current project.
>  Prototyped in December.
> ntegration this summer.  I''ll blog all the details
> when we integrate,
> but it''s what you''d expect of ZFS dedup --
> synchronous, no limits, etc.

I am not sure about the "what you''d expect" part. Previous
discussions here showed interest for a synchronous version, but also for
asynchronous versions (one that works in the background, or one you can run
occasionally like a scrub, there are plenty of possibilities).

I am not complaining though, the synchronous version is an interesting one, and
it should be easier to add the other versions afterwards.