[Users] deduplication

[Karli Sjöberg]

ons 2013-05-29 klockan 09:59 +0100 skrev suporte at logicworks.pt:
Absolutely agree with you, planning is the best thing to do, but normally people want a plug'n'play system with all included, because there is not much time to think and planning, and there are many companies that know how to take advantage of this people characteristics.
Any way, I think another solution for dedup is FreeNAS using ZFS.

FreeNAS is just FreeBSD with a fancy web-ui ontop, so it´s neither more or less of ZFS than you would have otherwise, And regarding dedup in ZFS; Just don´t, it´s not worth it! It´s said that it may increase performance when you have a very suitable usecase, e.g. everything exactly the same over and over. What´s not said is that scrubbing and resilvering slows down to a snail (from hundreds of MB/s, or GB if your system is large enough, down to less than 10), just from dedup. Also deleting snapshots of datasets that have(or have had) dedup on can kill the entire system, and when I say kill, I mean really fubar. Been there, regretted that... Now, compression on the other hand, you get basically for free and gives decent savings, I highly recommend that.

/Karli


Jose


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From: "Jiri Belka" <jbelka at redhat.com>
To: suporte at logicworks.pt
Cc: users at ovirt.org
Sent: Quarta-feira, 29 de Maio de 2013 7:33:10
Subject: Re: [Users] deduplication

On Tue, 28 May 2013 14:29:05 +0100 (WEST)
suporte at logicworks.pt wrote:

> That's why I'm making this questions, to demystify some buzzwords around here.
> But if you have a strong and good technology why not create buzzwords to get into as many people as possible? without trapped them.
> Share a disk containing "static" data is a good idea, do you know from where I can start?

Everything depends on your needs, design planning. Maybe then sharing
disk would be better to share via NFS/iscsi. Of course if you have many
VMs each of them is different you will fail. But if you have mostly
homogeneous environment you can think about this approach. Sure you have
to have plan for upgrading "base" "static" shared OS data, you have to
have plan how to install additional software (different destination
than /usr or /usr/local)... If you already have your own build host
which builds for you OS packages and you have already your own plan for
deployment, you have done first steps. If you depend on upgrading each
machine separately from Internet, then first you should plan your
environment, configuration management etc.

Well, in many times people do not do any planning, they just think some
good technology would save their "poor" design.

j.




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