Neil Perrin wrote:
> Mertol,
>
> Yes, dedup is certainly on our list and has been actively
> discussed recently, so there's hope and some forward progress.
> It would be interesting to see where it fits into our customers
> priorities for ZFS. We have a long laundry list of projects.
> In addition there's bug fixes & performance changes that customers
> are demanding.
>
> Neil.
>
>
I want to cast my vote for getting dedup on ZFS. One place we currently
use ZFS is as nearline storage for backup data. I have a 16TB server
that provides a file store for an EMC Networker server. I'm seeing a
compressratio of 1.73, which is mighty impressive, since we also use
native EMC compression during the backups. But with dedup, we should
see way more. Here at UCB SSL, we have demoed and investigated various
dedup products, hardware and software, but they are all steep on the ROI
curve. I would be very excited to see block level ZFS deduplication
roll out. Especially since we already have the infrastructure in place
using Solaris/ZFS.
Cheers,
Jon
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