[PLUG] duplicate files

Randal L. Schwartz merlyn at stonehenge.com
Fri Jul 30 15:09:35 UTC 2010


>>>>> "Michael" == Michael Ewan <mhewan1 at comcast.net> writes:

>> If you want to just get a server up quick, I'd recommend Ext3, which can be
>> upgraded to Ext4 or Btrfs.  If you want an adventure, build a NAS using ZFS
>> (on freeNAS, BSD 8 or Nexenta), which can do deduplication without all the
>> hard-linking.

FreeBSD 8.0 and 8.1 version of ZFS does not yet have dedup (zfs v13 and
v14 respectively).  It might be in -CURRENT, but that's a different can
of worms.

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