On Jan 5, 2010, at 4:38 PM, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > On Mon, 4 Jan 2010, Tony Russell wrote: > >> I am under the impression that dedupe is still only in OpenSolaris and that >> support for dedupe is limited or non existent. Is this true? I would like >> to use ZFS and the dedupe capability to store multiple virtual machine >> images. The problem is that this will be in a production environment and >> would probably call for Solaris 10 instead of OpenSolaris. Are my >> statements on this valid or am I off track? > > If dedup gets scheduled for Solaris 10 (I don't know), it would surely not be > available until at least a year from now. > > Dedup in OpenSolaris still seems risky to use other than for experimental > purposes. It has only recently become available.
I've just wrote an entry about update 9, I think it will contain zpool version 19, so no dedup for this release if that's correct. Regards Henrik http://sparcv9.blogspot.com
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