Good morning all... Great work on the De-Dupe stuff. cant wait to try it out. but quick question about iSCSI and De-Dupe. will it work? if i share out a ZVOL to another machine and copy some simular files to it (thinking VMs) will they get de-duplicated? Thanks. -- Tiernan O''Toole blog.lotas-smartman.net www.tiernanotoolephotography.com www.the-hairy-one.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/zfs-discuss/attachments/20091103/c42b5541/attachment.html>
Tiernan OToole wrote:> Good morning all... > > Great work on the De-Dupe stuff. cant wait to try it out. but quick > question about iSCSI and De-Dupe. will it work? if i share out a ZVOL to > another machine and copy some simular files to it (thinking VMs) will > they get de-duplicated?It works but how much benefit you will get from it, since it is block not file based, depends on what type of filesystem and/or application is on the iSCSI target. -- Darren J Moffat