[zfs-code] ZFS and deduplication?

James C. McPherson
Sat, 16 May 2009 22:39:34 -0000

On Sat, 16 May 2009 11:43:30 -0700 (PDT)
BJ Quinn <bjquinn at seidal.com> wrote:

> I''ve been trying to keep up with the latest news on ZFS and
deduplication, and unfortunately there''s not much news out there and
this thread happens to contain the most recent information on the subject.  That
being said, I found an article that mentioned the following
(http://www.technologyandbusiness.com.au/server-hardware-software/News/Sun-shines-more-light-on-Open-Source-Kernels.aspx)
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>
> "Sun Microsystems will hold its first-ever Australian Kernel
conference in July this year that will examine any open source kernels and
technologies within those kernels. ... Sun Microsystems? Sun Fellow and Vice
President, Jeff Bonwick and Distinguished Engineer Bill Moore will present the
opening keynote for the conference, titled ''Deduplication in
ZFS,'' which will likely include a live demonstration."
>
> According to http://au.sun.com/sunnews/events/2009/kernel/, the above
mentioned conference will be held in Brisbane, Australia, from July 15th to
17th, 2009.
>
> Hopefully deduplication will come to SXCE shortly thereafter, and maybe
we''ll see it in a second OpenSolaris release this year after 2009.06 is
released.


Actually, I''m hoping that Jeff and Bill will have integrated
ZFS Deduplication into NV before they get on the plane to come
over here for KCA. We''ll just have to wait and see :-)

Either way, whenever they integrate it into NV, it''ll be in
the next build of SXCE and should show up in OpenSolaris''
dev repo shortly afterwards. There won''t be another OpenSolaris
_release_ this year after 2009.06.


Cheers,
James C. McPherson
(chief instigator/agitator for Kernel Conference Australia)
--
Senior Kernel Software Engineer, Solaris
Sun Microsystems
http://blogs.sun.com/jmcp	http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog
Kernel Conference Australia - http://au.sun.com/sunnews/events/2009/kernel