[zfs-discuss] ZFS not usable (was ZFS Dedup question)

2011-01-28 Thread Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk
> I created a zfs pool with dedup with the following settings: > zpool create data c8t1d0 > zfs create data/shared > zfs set dedup=on data/shared > > The thing I was wondering about was it seems like ZFS only dedup at > the file level and not the block. When I make multiple copies of a > file to t

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS not usable (was ZFS Dedup question)

2011-01-29 Thread Erik Trimble
On 1/28/2011 2:24 PM, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk wrote: I created a zfs pool with dedup with the following settings: zpool create data c8t1d0 zfs create data/shared zfs set dedup=on data/shared The thing I was wondering about was it seems like ZFS only dedup at the file level and not the block. When I

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS not usable (was ZFS Dedup question)

2011-01-29 Thread Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk
> If you want Dedup to perform well, you *absolutely* must have a L2ARC > device which can hold the *entire* Dedup Table. Remember, the size of > the DDT is not dependent on the size of your data pool, but in the > number of zfs slabs which are contained in that pool (slab = record, > for > this pu