Not exactly. What is dedup'ed is the stream only, which is infect not very efficient. Real dedup aware replication is taking the necessary steps to avoid sending a block that exists on the other storage system.
<http://www.oracle.com/> Mertol Özyöney | Storage Sales Mobile: +90 533 931 0752 Email: mertol.ozyo...@oracle.com On 12/8/11 1:39 PM, "Darren J Moffat" <darren.mof...@oracle.com> wrote: >On 12/07/11 20:48, Mertol Ozyoney wrote: >> Unfortunetly the answer is no. Neither l1 nor l2 cache is dedup aware. >> >> The only vendor i know that can do this is Netapp >> >> In fact , most of our functions, like replication is not dedup aware. > >> For example, thecnicaly it's possible to optimize our replication that >> it does not send daya chunks if a data chunk with the same chechsum >> exists in target, without enabling dedup on target and source. > >We already do that with 'zfs send -D': > > -D > > Perform dedup processing on the stream. Deduplicated > streams cannot be received on systems that do not > support the stream deduplication feature. > > > > >-- >Darren J Moffat _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
