On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 11:49 AM, Dale Ghent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Did I detect a (well-done) metaphor for shared ZFS?
Probably not. It looks like a deduplication / MAID solution. There's a white paper here: http://blogs.sun.com/bobp/resource/greenbytes%20white%20paper.pdf >From page 4: ZFS+™ reduces the capacity required for persistent data storage by performing non-destructive compression and data de-duplication operations – natively and in-line with its normal operation. By utilizing wire speed compression, a 2:1 reduction is realized on exactly the type of data that are likely candidates for long term storage – e-mail, user documents, and similar unstructured data types. Data de-duplication, creates even greater potential disk footprint savings, by automatically detecting and removing redundant data files so often encountered in business data, such as redundant e-mail attachments, document header pages and common user files. -B -- Brandon High [EMAIL PROTECTED] "I'm not against the police; I'm just afraid of them." -Alfred Hitchcock _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
