> Realistically, I think people are overtly-enamored > with dedup as a > feature - I would generally only consider it > worth-while in cases where > you get significant savings. And by significant, I'm > talking an order of > magnitude space savings. A 2x savings isn't really > enough to counteract > the down sides. Especially when even enterprise disk > space is > (relatively) cheap. >
I think dedup may have its greatest appeal in VDI environments (think about a environment with 85% if the data that the virtual machine needs is into ARC or L2ARC... is like a dream...almost instantaneous response... and you can boot a new machine in a few seconds)... > > That all said, ZFS dedup is still definitely beta. > There are known > severe bugs and performance issues which will take > time to fix, as not > all of them have obvious solutions Given current > schedules, I predict > that it should be production-ready some time in 2011. > *When* in 2011, I > couldn't hazard... > > Maybe time to make Solaris 10 Update 12 or so? Yes... so you can start paching Solaris on Monday... and perhaps... it will be finished on Tuesday (but next week) > > -- > Erik Trimble > Java System Support > Mailstop: usca22-123 > Phone: x17195 > Santa Clara, CA > > _______________________________________________ > zfs-discuss mailing list > zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discu > ss > -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
