Recently integrated into ZFS: Data Deduplication
I just stumbled onto this blog entry on the implementation of data deduplication into the Sun Microsystem’s ZFS file system. It is implemented in such a nice and clean way, I am looking forward to testing it. For instance, just like any other feature of the ZFS file system, data dedup can be enabled disabled at any path from the ZFS root mount point. Examples taken from Jeff Bonwick’s blog post cited above:
zfs set dedup=on tank |
It is that simple (man 1 zfs).
