fsdup
Infrastructure
backup deduplication
SHOW HN2019
3points
6comments
#2,120of 2,195 in 2019
Top 97%of 2019 by points
How HN took it
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What people liked
Interesting idea and a good write-up.
From 1 comment
nice write up. interesting idea too... very cool... one question though: I wonder what ZFS + DeDup or Windows Storage Spaces + DeDup would do with the same data, just out of…
tiernano on HN
Objections
Block-level dedup on NTFS gives better ratios but costs much more metadata.
From 1 comment
That said, block level dedup on NTFS will lead to better dedup ratios, but at the cost of a lot more metadata and a very high metadata to data ratio.
binwiederhier on HN
Questions
How would ZFS dedup or Windows Storage Spaces dedup handle the same data?
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nice write up. interesting idea too... very cool... one question though: I wonder what ZFS + DeDup or Windows Storage Spaces + DeDup would do with the same data, just out of…
tiernano on HN
Alternatives named
ZFS deduplication
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nice write up. interesting idea too... very cool... one question though: I wonder what ZFS + DeDup or Windows Storage Spaces + DeDup would do with the same data, just out of…
tiernano on HN
Windows Storage Spaces deduplication
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nice write up. interesting idea too... very cool... one question though: I wonder what ZFS + DeDup or Windows Storage Spaces + DeDup would do with the same data, just out of…
tiernano on HN