I've used SDFS... It has some nice features, but is unfortunately
unstable.  I lost data a couple of times in testing.

Another alternative is ZFS on Linux ( http://zfsonlinux.org/ ).  I've
been trying this out for a little while now and it seem to be much
better.  I have yet to figure out how to do an instant copy of a file,
but dedup seems to be working beautifully.  I'm getting ~45-50MB/sec
out of an SSD and core 5 duo.  Dedup is using quite a lot of CPU
power, which seems to be the limiting factor on my bandwidth.  For
stability, I've had no data loss and only a single kernel panic in the
ZFS code (2.6.39 custom kernel on Ubuntu 10.04.3).

-Tim

On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 1:22 PM, Phil Schaffner
<philip.r.schaff...@nasa.gov> wrote:
> Alan McKay wrote on 05/25/2012 10:19 AM:
>
>> Hey folks,
>>
>> I have a 14TB disk array that I want to use for rsnapshot backups, and
>> am considering putting a dedup FS onto it.  I know I've got about a TB
>> of duplication, at least.  And it is not easy to remove manually.
>>
>> Google lands me LessFS and SDFS as the prime candidates.  I'm running
>> RHEL5.8 if that matters.
>>
>
> How about leaving the filesystem ext3/4 and running hardlink on it?
>
> Phil
>
>
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