ZFS Inline Deduplication

Those of you who have been following the lists, the bug trackers or Planet OpenSolaris know this already, but for the rest of you, Sun’s ZFS filesystem has just seen inline dedupe support merged into OpenSolaris trunk, presumably to be appearing in the next major OS release. Jeff Bonwick has, as always, a very detailed blog entry about it, but here’s the only part you really need to know: If you have a storage pool named ‘tank’ and you want to use dedup, just type this: zfs set dedup=on tank That’s it. Just as simple as you would have imagined, … Continue Reading →