Re: Happiness is...

["Robert G. (Doc) Savage" <dsavage@peaknet.net>]

Kevin,

It's very fast, even for writes. It'd be a lot better if/when Red Hat
integrates it into the mainstream. Allowing the hashed block table to
reside on a SSD rather than in ungodly sized motherboard RAM would make
deduplication accessible and affordable to everyone.

--Doc

On Sun, 2013-09-15 at 14:42 -0500, Kevin Thomas wrote:
> Do you feel that running zfs on Linux has been worth the trouble?
> 
> 
> Kevin
> 
> On Sunday, September 15, 2013, Robert G. (Doc) Savage wrote:
>         ... having a freshly made full backup of a ZFS array when it
>         faults out
>         and must be rebuilt from scratch. I'd saved the two zpool and
>         zfs create
>         command lines as scripts. All I needed to use them was to
>         zeroize all
>         nine drives (several hours) and then run:
>         
>         # zpool destroy pub
>         
>         I'm now rsyncing 1,250,000 files back to the newly created
>         array.
>         That'll probably take a day or two.
>         
>         --Doc




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