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Open Source Deduplication For Linux With Opendedup

Posted by timothy on 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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  1. deduplication by hduff · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    What kind of lame recursive acronym is "deduplication"?

    I'm flummoxed in any attempt to decipher it.

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  2. Patent 5,813,008 by snikulin · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    September 22, 1998.
    Single instance storage of information

  3. Re:In case you don't know much about it by fm6 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Yeah, that makes sense. But I had to do some googling to figure that out. If Slashdot lived up to its pretense to be a news site, the editors would take a few minutes to summarize the concept, or at least point at the appropriate Wikipedia article. It's beyond lame that they can't be bothered.

    One wonders if they even bother to read the stories they post — and what they do with the remaining 7 3/4 hours in the work day after they've picked out the stories.