On Sep 12, 2010, at 3:47 AM, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk <r...@karlsbakk.net> wrote:
>> If not, will any possible problems be avoided if I remove (transfer >> data away from) any filesystems with dedup=on ? > > I would think re-copying data from a deduped dataset to a non-deduped dataset > will fix it, yes. But then, who knows, perhaps Oracle will fix dedup and make > it usable one day... Dedup changes large I/Os into small I/Os. If you expect dedup to change large I/Os into no I/Os, then you will be unhappy. Thus, the best solution for dedup is one which can handle large amounts of small I/Os. -- richard _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
