[dm-devel] Target and deduplication?

[Alex Gorbachev]

>> On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 12:44:25AM +0100, Henrik Goldman wrote:
>> > Hello,
>> >
>> > Has anyone (possibly except purestorage) managed to make target work
>> > with deduplication?
>>
>> The iblock drivers works perfectly fine on top of the dm-dedup driver,
>> which unfortunately still hasn't made it to mainline despite looking
>> rather solid.
>
> The author(s) fell off the face of the earth.  And in testing it fell
> over pretty easily.  So I really have no idea what your view of it
> "looking rather solid" is based on.
> --

If for archival, not for inline dedup, we have had good results with
https://github.com/borgbackup

Regards,
Alex