On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 7:06 AM, James C. McPherson<james.c.mcpher...@gmail.com> wrote: > Anil wrote: >> >> When it comes out, how will it work? >> >> Does it work at the pool level or a zfs file system level? If I >> create a zpool called 'zones' and then I create several zones >> underneath that, could I expect to see a lot of disk space savings if >> I enable dedup on the pool? >> >> Just curious as to what's coming and what I should look out for. >> >> If it works at the pool level, that'll be very useful and save quite >> a disk space on a system with a lot of zones - which share a lot of >> common files. > > Good question - we don't know just yet. I expect we'll > have a much better idea after Jeff and Bill deliver their > keynote speech at Kernel Conference Australia, which kicks > off on Wednesday.
There is an ongoing speculations of what/when/how deduplication will be in ZFS and I am curious: what is the reason to keep the thing secret ? I always thought open source assumes open development process. What exactly people behind deduplication effort trying to prove by keeping their mouth shut ? Something feels wrong... -- Regards, Cyril _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss