filesystem/block-level deduplication (was Re: zfs-fuse or zfsonlinux)

2012-05-12 Thread Jon Dowland
On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 07:14:36AM -0600, Aaron Toponce wrote: > A word of caution: as tempting as deduplication might be, avoid it. Unless > you have significant RAM, and a fast RAID-0 SSD ZIL, I would advise against > it. It causes massive performance problems, and the benefit isn't worth the > c

Re: zfs-fuse or zfsonlinux

2012-05-10 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Thu, 10 May 2012 14:18:37 +0100, Lists wrote in message <4fabc02d.8080...@coffeehabit.net>: > On 09/05/2012 23:22, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > > > > ..exactly _what_ should it do for you? > > > > > > ..after that, you'll be ready for the _how_. > > I know the what and why of what I'm doing. Why d

Re: zfs-fuse or zfsonlinux

2012-05-10 Thread Aaron Toponce
On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 02:43:37PM +0100, Lists wrote: > Is Time Slider a feature for ZFS or (Open)Solaris? It seems to be > the latter. It is a feature of ZFS native. It's available in the http://zfsonlinux.org project. -- . o . o . o . . o o . . . o . . . o . o o o . o . o o .

Re: zfs-fuse or zfsonlinux

2012-05-10 Thread Lists
Hi Aaron, Thanks for your thorough response. On 10/05/2012 14:14, Aaron Toponce wrote: a year or so, also with zero issues. In fact, if you use Time Slider with frequent snapshots, it becomes trivial to restore data should corruption occur. Is Time Slider a feature for ZFS or (Open)Solaris? It

Re: zfs-fuse or zfsonlinux

2012-05-10 Thread Lists
On 09/05/2012 19:18, Jon Dowland wrote: On Wed, May 09, 2012 at 07:07:51PM +0100, Lists wrote: I'm looking at using ZFS for a box that will serve as a storage/backup box. I'm aware of Debian/kFreeBSD, which seems to be the best solution if I want to use Debian, but it does introduce some limita

Re: zfs-fuse or zfsonlinux

2012-05-10 Thread Aaron Toponce
On Wed, May 09, 2012 at 07:07:51PM +0100, Lists wrote: > I'm looking at using ZFS for a box that will serve as a > storage/backup box. I'm aware of Debian/kFreeBSD, which seems to be > the best solution if I want to use Debian, but it does introduce > some limitations, so I haven't decided on it (

Re: zfs-fuse or zfsonlinux

2012-05-10 Thread Jon Dowland
On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 12:22:35AM +0200, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > On Wed, 9 May 2012 19:18:28 +0100, Jon wrote in message > <20120509181828.GG8272@debian>: > > > On Wed, May 09, 2012 at 07:07:51PM +0100, Lists wrote: > > > I'm looking at using ZFS for a box that will serve as a > > > storage/backup

Re: zfs-fuse or zfsonlinux

2012-05-09 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Wed, 9 May 2012 19:18:28 +0100, Jon wrote in message <20120509181828.GG8272@debian>: > On Wed, May 09, 2012 at 07:07:51PM +0100, Lists wrote: > > I'm looking at using ZFS for a box that will serve as a > > storage/backup box. I'm aware of Debian/kFreeBSD, which seems to be ..if you're parano

Re: zfs-fuse or zfsonlinux

2012-05-09 Thread Jon Dowland
On Wed, May 09, 2012 at 07:07:51PM +0100, Lists wrote: > I'm looking at using ZFS for a box that will serve as a > storage/backup box. I'm aware of Debian/kFreeBSD, which seems to be > the best solution if I want to use Debian, but it does introduce > some limitations, so I haven't decided on it (