On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 9:32 PM, Ian Collins <i...@ianshome.com> wrote: > > Anil wrote: >> >> Does it work at the pool level or a zfs file system level? If I create a >> zpool called 'zones' and then I create several zones underneath that, could >> I expect to see a lot of disk space savings if I enable dedup on the pool? >> >> > > You can get the same savings by cloning your zones.
Until you patch (S10) or image-update (OpenSolaris) or need to restore from tape. Cloning is very interesting from a speed to provision standpoint but is begging for trouble in the long term without deduplication to handle ongoing operation. -- Mike Gerdts http://mgerdts.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
