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Yes, it does. But dedup is rarely that useful in my experience, it sounds nice on paper but it often doesn't provide benefits worth the CPU and IOPS demand it g
by snuxoll 10y ago
Yes, it does. But dedup is rarely that useful in my experience, it sounds nice on paper but it often doesn't provide benefits worth the CPU and IOPS demand it generates. Compression is "good enough" 98% of the time, and ZFS does a fine job with it.
- the8472 10y agodedup is quite useful when you have snapshots that somehow have lost their space-sharing. I guess it's due to files being replaced with identical files.
- unhammer 10y agoIf you take snapshotted backups from ext4 etc filsystems (no send/recv), where users regularly reorganise photo folders, dedup is invaluable :-)