Thread: Misc. BSD/UNIX ZFS just got built-in deduplication
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Old 3rd November 2009
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Sounds like pushing the same concept as hardlinks, down into a file system smart enough to optimize for the occasion; I'd love to see how dedup and zfs could be used to tune database servers tbh, but lack the resources to experiment.
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