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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. Let's get down to brass tacks. by jtownatpunk.net · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Does this mean I'll finally be able to store my entire porn collection on a single volume?

  2. Re:Excellent! by jtownatpunk.net · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Yeah, I gave up on bitching about code inefficiency back in the early 90s. Do they even teach assembly any more?