Hi Any idea why zfs does not dedup files with this format ? file /opt/XXX/XXX/data VAX COFF executable - version 7926 -- This message posted from opensolaris.org
> Hi Any idea why zfs does not dedup files with this format ? > file /opt/XXX/XXX/data > VAX COFF executable - version 7926With dedup enabled, ZFS will identify and remove duplicated regardless of the data format. Adam -- Adam Leventhal, Fishworks http://blogs.sun.com/ahl
I have these exact same files placed under zfs with dedup enabled: -rw-r----- 1 root root 6800152 Feb 21 20:17 /mypool/test1/data -rw-r----- 1 root root 6800152 Feb 21 20:17 /mypool/test2/data ~ # zpool list NAME SIZE ALLOC FREE CAP DEDUP HEALTH ALTROOT mypool 1.98T 14.7G 1.97T 0% 1.00x ONLINE - Any idea why zfs did not dedup in this case ? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org
Nevermind. I just tried larger files and now it does shows a dedup-% status change.. -rw-r----- 1 root root 2097157724 Feb 21 20:58 /mypool/test1/data -rw-r----- 1 root root 2097157724 Feb 21 20:58 /mypool/test2/data NAME SIZE ALLOC FREE CAP DEDUP HEALTH ALTROOT mypool 1.98T 16.8G 1.97T 0% 1.12x ONLINE - Thanks -- This message posted from opensolaris.org