Open Source Deduplication For Linux With Opendedup

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."

Comments

Hasn't this been posted before?

[Required Snark]

Just wondering...

Re:Let's get down to brass tacks.

[Hooya]

very repetitive. back and fourth. back and fourth. oh wait... that's not what you meant. never mind.

Re:deduplication

[nacturation]

What kind of lame recursive acronym is "deduplication"? I'm flummoxed in any attempt to decipher it.

Deduplication Eases Disk Utilization Purposefully Linking Information Common Among Trusted Independent Operating Nodes