Re: btrfs vs data deduplication

2011-09-18 Thread Maciej Marcin Piechotka
On Sat, 2011-07-09 at 08:19 +0200, Paweł Brodacki wrote: Hello, I've stumbled upon this article: http://storagemojo.com/2011/06/27/de-dup-too-much-of-good-thing/ Reportedly Sandforce SF1200 SSD controller does internally block-level data de-duplication. This effectively removes the

Re: btrfs vs data deduplication

2011-09-18 Thread Chris Samuel
On Mon, 19 Sep 2011, 06:15:51 EST, Hubert Kario hub...@kario.pl wrote: You shouldn't depend on single drive, metadata raid is there to protect against single bad blocks, not disk crash. I guess the issue here is you no longer even have that protection with this sort of dedup. cheers, Chris

btrfs vs data deduplication

2011-07-09 Thread Paweł Brodacki
Hello, I've stumbled upon this article: http://storagemojo.com/2011/06/27/de-dup-too-much-of-good-thing/ Reportedly Sandforce SF1200 SSD controller does internally block-level data de-duplication. This effectively removes the additional protection given by writing multiple metadata copies. This