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With XFS and reflink, out-of-band deduplication is totally possible and is a userspace [1] issue. But XFS is not doing anything to assist in accelerating the i
by newnewpdro 8y ago
With XFS and reflink, out-of-band deduplication is totally possible and is a userspace [1] issue. But XFS is not doing anything to assist in accelerating the identification of duplicate blocks, instead it simply implements ioctls for what is essentially extent sharing.
[1] https://github.com/markfasheh/duperemove https://github.com/markfasheh/duperemove