[plug] Deduplication

[Onno Benschop]

Thank you for that suggestion.

Bedup seems at first glance to heavily integrate with brtfs, so I'm unsure
how this would help in the stability stakes.

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On 11 May 2014 10:36, "Adon Metcalfe" <adon.metcalfe at gmail.com> wrote:

> Offline is good, bedup we have found is nice (specially for worm data like
> archives/backups, 20TB volume sitting at around 13TB 'bedupped')
>
> https://github.com/g2p/bedup
>
> Kind Regards,
> Adon
>
>
> On 10 May 2014 14:09, Onno Benschop <onno at itmaze.com.au> wrote:
>
>> Has there been a PLUG talk on this topic, or some recommended reading I
>> can look at? I don't recall seeing anything on this topic during #LCA2014,
>> but I may have missed it.
>>
>> It appears to my initial google-fu that there is lots going on, but very
>> little of it seems to be ready for prime-time and I really don't want to
>> start experimenting with this in a production environment.
>>
>> So far I've found btrfs, which Facebook appears to be trialling, but it's
>> not considered stable. ZFS appears to be implemented as a DKMS because of
>> licencing conflicts, requiring a re-compile every time you update the
>> kernel, lessfs as a Fuse module, but it seems unstable with countless crash
>> reports.
>>
>> I'm running various versions of Ubuntu under VMware Fusion 4.x (OS X
>> 10.6.8) and would love to have some disk space back ;-)
>>
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>
> Adon Metcalfe
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