[OpenIndiana-discuss] Dedup - warning use or futher work?

2011-12-21 Thread Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk
Hi all As we may know by now, the current dedup code isn't very useful. Are there work being done on this code at the moment? If not, I think it might be a good idea to either remove it or at least add a rather flashy warning so that people won't use it for new systems unless they really want t

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Dedup - warning use or futher work?

2011-12-21 Thread Bill Sommerfeld
On 12/21/11 12:36, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk wrote: > As we may know by now, the current dedup code isn't very useful. Are there > work being done on this code at the moment? If not, I think it might be a > good idea to either remove it or at least add a rather flashy warning so > that people won't use

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Dedup - warning use or futher work?

2011-12-22 Thread Milan Jurik
Hi, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk píše v St 21. 12. 2011 v 21:36 +0100: > Hi all > > As we may know by now, the current dedup code isn't very useful. why is it not very usefull? There are setups where it is very good. > Are there work being done on this code at the moment? If not, I think it > might b

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Dedup - warning use or futher work?

2011-12-22 Thread Ray Arachelian
On 12/22/2011 07:41 AM, Milan Jurik wrote: > Do you want to have big warning to every setup which can be problematic > in some cases and in some not? In such case you will have warning in too > many places. > > Maybe manpage can be improved to note that dedup makes sense only in > specific setups a

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Dedup - warning use or futher work?

2011-12-23 Thread Milan Jurik
Hi, Ray Arachelian píše v čt 22. 12. 2011 v 10:36 -0500: > > My impression is that you can turn it on, copy your data to the zpool, > then turn it off and not have it un-deduplicate. Maybe I'm wrong, but > if that's the case, they'd be a much smaller memory requirement at the > end, and you'd st