[LinuxUsers] ZFS Deduplication

[Brian Friday]

Well the NetApp vs Sun over ZFS lawsuit isn't helping anything either.  
It is rather hard to find adopters for a technology that is free that  
is already mired in a lawsuit.

A good if slanted towards all the furor around Apple dropping ZFS  
article is found below:
http://www.devwhy.com/2009/10/loss-of-zfs.html

That said, the dedup ability in ZFS is a pretty neat feature, and  
could save a serious amount of space depending on your usage model.

On Nov 2, 2009, at 8:19 PM, Chris Penn wrote:

> ZFS is one of the all time fails for Sun.  It is a very cool file
> system but because of Sun CDDL it is hard to get the Linux and FOSS
> community interested in it.  Fails like this, IMO, have keep Sun down.
> Maybe Oracle will open it up.
>
> Chris...
>
> On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 9:59 PM, Roger E. Rustad, Jr.
> <roger.rustad at gmail.com> wrote:
>> http://blogs.sun.com/bonwick/entry/zfs_dedup
>>
>> (Those new to ZFS http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZFS )
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