On Wed, 9 Dec 2009, Bruno Sousa wrote:
Despite the fact that i agree in general with your comments, in reality it all comes to money.. So in this case, if i could prove that ZFS was able to find X amount of duplicated data, and since that X amount of data has a price of Y per GB, IT could be seen as business enabler instead of a cost centre.
Most of the cost of storing business data is related to the cost of backing it up and administering it rather than the cost of the system on which it is stored. In this case it is reasonable to know the total amount of user data (and charge for it), since it likely needs to be backed up and managed. Deduplication does not help much here.
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