an attempt at documentation of my ongoing struggles with solaris and opensolaris on x86. I believe strongly in the (public) documentation of trials, struggles and failures, even more so than in the documentation of success: With a long standing commitment to solaris, looking for answers and just finding "I tried it on distibution 'X' and it worked for me" is not very informative.

Sunday, March 07, 2010

zfs dedup helps me more than I expected...

reading the FAST10 proceedings article on deduplication

$ zpool status
pool: rpool
state: ONLINE
scrub: none requested
config:

NAME STATE READ WRITE CKSUM
rpool ONLINE 0 0 0
c6t0d0s0 ONLINE 0 0 0

errors: No known data errors
$ zpool list
NAME SIZE ALLOC FREE CAP DEDUP HEALTH ALTROOT
rpool 232G 99.6G 132G 42% 1.43x ONLINE -

Dedup helps out more than I expected for just a simple laptop running build 133: I try to keep my folders as clean as time permits...