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Re:Data Deduplication with Linux by devicenull on Saturday August 27, 2011 @09:53PM (#2933075)
Based on my testing (not published anywhere, sorry) ZFS dedup works best when you enable compression. With compression, it's only slightly slower then without dedup.
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Re:Data Deduplication with Linux by Dylan16807 on Saturday August 27, 2011 @10:39PM (#2933115)
I did have compression on. Good to know that in some cases dedup will perform quite well. Was that with an SSD?

My best guess is that I either ruined the configuration in some way or dedup and only dedup reacted horribly to being in a virtual machine.

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Re:Data Deduplication with Linux by dedward on Sunday August 28, 2011 @02:12PM (#2934539)
ZFS is designed to have lots of horsepower and memory thrown at it.......big servers, available CPU power, lots of ECC ram. If there's going to be an SSD allocated as a cache disk, it's probably expected to be huge and enterprisey too.....

ZFS is awesome, but some features will be disappointing unless you are dealing with adequate resources.

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