On Jun 15, 2010, at 14:20, Fco Javier Garcia wrote:
I think dedup may have its greatest appeal in VDI environments (think about a environment with 85% if the data that the virtual machine needs is into ARC or L2ARC... is like a dream...almost instantaneous response... and you can boot a new machine in a few seconds)...
This may also be accomplished by using snapshots and clones of data sets. At least for OS images: user profiles and documents could be something else entirely.
Another situation that comes to mind is perhaps as the back-end to a mail store: if you send out a message(s) with an attachment(s) to a lot of people, the attachment blocks could be deduped (and perhaps compressed as well, since base-64 adds 1/3 overhead).
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