On Mon, 13 Jul 2015 17:38:35 -0400, Selva Nair wrote:
As with any dedup solution, performance does take a hit and its often
not worth it unless you have a lot of duplication in the data.
This is so only in some volumes in our case, but it appears that zfs
permits this to be enabled/disabled
yeah, i read somewhere that zfs DOES have separate tuning for metadata
and data cache, but i need to read up on that more.
as for heavy block duplication: daily backups of the whole system = alot of
dupe.
/kc
On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 05:42:32PM +, Andrew Gideon said:
On Mon, 13 Jul
On Mon, Jul 13, 2015 at 5:19 PM, Simon Hobson li...@thehobsons.co.uk
wrote:
What's needed is a file system that can do what hard links do, but at the
file page level. I imagine that this would work using the same Copy On
Write logic used in managing memory pages after a fork().
Well some
