>forgive my ignorance, but what's the advantage of this new dedup over >the existing compression option? it may provide another space saving advantage. depending on your data, the savings can be very significant.
>Wouldn't full-filesystem compression >naturally de-dupe? no. compression doesn`t look forth and back, only the actual data block is compressed and redundant information being removed. compression != deduplication ! -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
