[zfs-code] ZFS and deduplication?

Jeff Bonwick
Tue, 31 Mar 2009 09:47:29 -0000

Yes -- dedup is my (and Bill''s) current project.  Prototyped in
December.
Integration 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.

Jeff

On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 02:32:11AM -0700, Joachim Sandvik
wrote:
> As a Netapp user i have grown very fond of the deduplication feature we
have on our filers, and some time ago i heard that dedup was being investigated
on zfs aswell.
>
> Do you guys know how far this has come?
>
> I really like to build a low cost backup appliance using zfs and dedpu.. :)
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