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Filesystem/file level dedupe is for suckers. =D If the greatest filesystem in the world were a living being, it would be our God. That filesystem, of course, i
by mmh0000 6mo ago
Filesystem/file level dedupe is for suckers. =D
If the greatest filesystem in the world were a living being, it would be our God. That filesystem, of course, is ZFS.
Handles this correctly:
https://www.truenas.com/docs/references/zfsdeduplication/ https://www.truenas.com/docs/references/zfsdeduplication/
- UltraSane 6mo agoI was talking about block level dedupe.
- mmh0000 6mo agoI thought you might be. I just wanted to mention ZFS. Have I mentioned how great ZFS is yet?
- otterley 6mo agoZFS is great! However, it's too complicated for most Linux server use cases (especially with just one block device attached); it's not the default (root filesystem); and it's not supported for at least one major enterprise Linux distro family.
- vmilner 6mo agoIt's not as good as ed: https://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/ed-msg.html https://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/ed-msg.html