On Thu, 21 Jul 2011 09:56:38 +0200 "Sascha Wildner" <s...@online.de> wrote:
> On Thu, 21 Jul 2011 06:23:16 +0200, Siju George <sgeorge...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 7:18 AM, Thomas Keusch > > <fwd+usenet-spam201...@bsd-solutions-duesseldorf.de> wrote: > >> > >> nice statistics. I can not provide stats of my own, as I don't run > >> Dragonfly yet, so I'm more of a hypothetical user right now. But one > >> thing that's of interest to me is how long did the de-dupe process > >> take? > >> > > > > I ran them one by one. at my own pace but the biggest two > > simultaneously did not take more than 2 hrs. > > So I guess 2-3 hrs would be a nice approximation :-) > > My experiences were different on a file system containing a lot of data > (>2TB). > > I didn't try dedup itself but a dedup-simulate already ran for more than > two days (consuming a lot of memory in the process) before I finally > cancelled it. Most odd - I just tried a dedup-simulate on a 2TB filesystem with about 840GB used, it finished in about 30 seconds and reported a ratio of 1.01 (dedup has been running automatically every night on this FS). -- Steve O'Hara-Smith | Directable Mirror Arrays C:>WIN | A better way to focus the sun The computer obeys and wins. | licences available see You lose and Bill collects. | http://www.sohara.org/