In my last post I did ran a little test where I copied a few ISO's over to the test server to see how the deduplication process worked on ZFS. I've continued that testing, and copied a few virtual machines up to the lab server. To make things a bit mor… more »

Here's a quick look at the dedup results on the test box I built a week back. While this isn't a detailed test, you can see ZFS dedup in action.Base File System NAME SIZE ALLOC FREE CAP DEDUP HEALTH ALTROOTrpool 696G 5.59G 69… more »

This post has been a few weekends in the making, but I'm here today with a clean deduplicating ZFS file system in the lab. I started the project with a relatively basic goal, replace my current Debian Linux backup server with something that will maximiz… more »