Re: Massive file duplication with several working copies / which linux filesystem to use

2011/4/14 Thorsten Schöning <tschoening_at_am-soft.de>

> Guten Tag Jan Dvorak,
> am Donnerstag, 14. April 2011 um 16:16 schrieben Sie:
>
> > Which linux filesystem would you recommend?
>
> The only one I read of with deduplication was ZFS and KQ Infotech
> seems to provide a good implementation for Linux.
>
> http://www.kqinfotech.com/content.php?id=2

Be careful with ZFS deduplication. It still has some issues. Memory usage
for it is quite massive, and there are cases of running a destroy operation
on a deduped zpool taking literally days.

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David Brodbeck
System Administrator, Linguistics
University of Washington