The status of online data deduplication on btrfs.

darkstarbyte · 11-23-2014, 01:36 AM

Does anyone have a recent link to the current status of online data deduplication on btrfs?

I have tried on Google for a while now, and I can only get links from 2013.

syg00 · 11-23-2014, 02:05 AM

The wiki is always a good place to start.
As you are hopefully aware, btrfs is (still) under active development.

darkstarbyte · 11-23-2014, 02:34 AM

I found the wiki already, but I'm guessing they came to a stand still and are trying to find less ram consuming ways of doing it.

syg00 · 11-23-2014, 03:02 AM

Features tend to appear slowly - RAID[56] for example. I'm waiting for scrub support.
Pays to be judicious, but btrfs is such a good concept, I use it for my photos. But then I'm anal about backups ...

darkstarbyte · 11-23-2014, 03:14 AM

Thanks. I suppose they don't have a major dev team like some file systems.