On Tue, January 5, 2010 10:25, Richard Elling wrote: > On Jan 5, 2010, at 8:13 AM, David Dyer-Bennet wrote:
>> It's interesting how our ability to build larger disks, and our >> software's >> ability to do things like create really large numbers of files, >> comes back >> to bite us on the ass every now and then. > > Wait until you try it with dedup... not only will you need to update a > lot > of metadata, but also a lot of DTT entries. My data consists (by volume) almost entirely of bitmap photo images; I don't think dedup is going to buy me much, so I'm not leaping into experimenting with it. Probably just as well; I don't think I have enough memory for it, either. -- David Dyer-Bennet, d...@dd-b.net; http://dd-b.net/ Snapshots: http://dd-b.net/dd-b/SnapshotAlbum/data/ Photos: http://dd-b.net/photography/gallery/ Dragaera: http://dragaera.info _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
