On 03/19/2013 08:55 AM, Michael Torrie wrote: > On 03/19/2013 12:43 AM, Dan Egli wrote: >> That's interesting. I have not personally looked at ZFS except as a way to >> obtain deduplication. If there's a way to make Deduplication work on other >> file systems (and not using the script to replace files with links, but >> actual deduplication of individual data blocks) then I'll look into that >> for my system and for the work box. Do you recall where you saw the >> "opendedup" project? I'd like to look into that! > > I'm curious as to what advantage deduplication gives you on a home > server? On a large file system with thousands of users, I can see how > it could be a benefit there. But on my own computer, the large storage > is taken up by photos, music, and video and I highly doubt there are > many duplicate blocks there.
Reading your messages again, I see that for your home server deduplication isn't important, but for the work achive it could be very handy indeed. /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
