Open Source Deduplication For Linux With Opendedup

Posted by timothy on Saturday March 27, 2010 @03:31PM from the its-missing-apostrophes dept.

tazzbit writes "The storage vendors have been crowing about data deduplication technology for some time now, but a new open source project, Opendedup, brings it to Linux and its hypervisors — KVM, Xen and VMware. The new deduplication-based file system called SDFS (GPL v2) is scalable to eight petabytes of capacity with 256 storage engines, which can each store up to 32TB of deduplicated data. Each volume can be up to 8 exabytes and the number of files is limited by the underlying file system. Opendedup runs in user space, making it platform independent, easier to scale and cluster, and it can integrate with other user space services like Amazon S3."

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Excellent! by Anonymous Coward · 2010-03-27 15:55 · Score: -1, Flamebait

Once again the laziness of software types requires the ingenuity of massive hardware to compensate. Keep it up programmers! Soon you can have a retarded clam programming stuff that runs on a 6500THz processor and you'll STILL blame the computer for being slow!