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XFS: the filesystem of the future?XFS: the filesystem of the future?Posted Jan 21, 2012 23:10 UTC (Sat) by cmccabe (guest, #60281)In reply to: XFS: the filesystem of the future? by drag Parent article: XFS: the filesystem of the future?
Yeah, I agree that dedupe is overrated, for most applications.
Also keep in mind that the more compressed and de-duped your data is, the more likely it is that you'll lose data when there's a hardware problem. Some filesystems, like HDFS, actually write out the data three times or more, which is a kind of anti-deduplication.
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XFS: the filesystem of the future? Posted Jan 23, 2012 14:29 UTC (Mon) by jezuch (subscriber, #52988) [Link]
> Yeah, I agree that dedupe is overrated, for most applications.
On the other hand, cp --reflink is quite awesome.
> Also keep in mind that the more compressed and de-duped your data is, the more likely it is that you'll lose data when there's a hardware problem. Some filesystems, like HDFS, actually write out the data three times or more, which is a kind of anti-deduplication.
I guess that native RAID-ing in the filesystem is expected to offset this risk, in any "normal" situation at least.
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