Open Source Deduplication For Linux With Opendedup 186
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."
Hasn't this been posted before? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Hasn't this been posted before? (Score:1, Funny)
If so, how about we just reference that post?
Re:Let's get down to brass tacks. (Score:4, Funny)
very repetitive. back and fourth. back and fourth. oh wait... that's not what you meant. never mind.
Re:This is for hard disks (Score:2, Funny)
what an idiot I am T.T
Re:In case you don't know much about it (Score:2, Funny)
Re:In case you don't know much about it (Score:3, Funny)
Hey, slow down cowboy. Explain that concept to me again. I don't know if it's applicable here, but if we find a way to implement it, it might just prove revolutionary.
I work in the quality assurance department of Geeknet Inc, Slashdot's parent company. We are constantly looking for ways to improve all the sites on our network.
I don't know if this method you propose, that, if I understand correctly, would involve parsing the content of the html document linked, and having an editor analyze the output of such html document after being rendered (let's call it, reading the story), is at all possible. But if we implement it the right way, it might prove useful.
We'll get our research team to work over this reading-the-story concept. It's something absolutely novel to us, so it might take a while. We'll let you know when we reach a conclusion, so that we might license this reading-the-story technology from you.
Kind Regards,
Lazy Rodriguez
GeekNet INC.
Re:deduplication (Score:3, Funny)
So, Blade Runner was about de-duplication?
Re:deduplication (Score:5, Funny)
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
Re:This is for hard disks (Score:2, Funny)