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As adbge mentions elsewhere, the latest ZFS package in FreeBSD is lagging OpenSolaris's. http://hackerne.ws/item?id=1567463 http://hackerne.ws/item?id=1567463

• ssmoot 16y ago
  Data de-dupe is FUBAR. It's why snv_134, which was supposed to be final was scrapped. I hadn't heard of a FreeBSD kernel issue, but if that's true, it might just be for the best for the next 6 months at least. de-dupe is kinda a useless feature if you're not a hosting company anyway. A hosting company could take advantage of storing tons of mostly-the-same VMs. It's not the few hundred GB in our dozens of base VM images that concerns me though. It's the terra-bytes of multimedia and databases. Plus de-dupe takes a lot of RAM. A lot. There was a time where it would've been very nice, but as it stands, it's really a niche product to come up with a situation where it's RAM requirements, and it's rather small storage savings might make sense.