Been playing with ZFS dedupe for the last two weeks and just wanted to share my findings. Setup OpenSolaris build 131 Sun X4200, 2 x Dual Core Opteron 2.6Ghz, 8Gb Ram, 4 x 73Gb SAS 10Krpm root@osol:~# zfs list NAME USED AVAIL REFER MOUNTPOINT compress 72K 66.9G 21K /compress dedupe 72K 66.9G 21K /dedupe root@osol:~# zfs set compression=on compress root@osol:~# zfs set dedup=on dedupe Wanted to see how much real data would dedupe. I loaded the my company project/Software folders, 68,000 files (Visio/PDF/Project/Wo...
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