[linux-lvm] deduplication, at LVM level or FS level?

Christian Kujau lists at nerdbynature.de
Tue Nov 17 22:38:08 UTC 2009


On Mon, 16 Nov 2009 at 17:09, Anthony Clark wrote:
> Should dedup happen at the filesystem level or the LVM level?

Along with the recent announcement of ZFS dedup, Jeff Bonwick listed a few 
pros/cons of different dedup approaches: 
http://blogs.sun.com/bonwick/entry/zfs_dedup
("What to dedup: Files, blocks, or bytes?")

HTH,
C.
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