[CentOS] Deduplication data for CentOS?

Tue Aug 28 07:58:46 UTC 2012
Rainer Traut <tr.ml at gmx.de>

Am 27.08.2012 16:04, schrieb Janne Snabb:
> On 08/27/2012 07:23 PM, Rainer Traut wrote:
>
>> Yeah I know it has this feature, but is there a working zfs
>> implementation for linux?
>
> I have heard some positive feedback about http://zfsonlinux.org/ but I
> have not had time to test myself yet. It probably depends on your
> intended usage. It is a new in-kernel ZFS implementation (different from
> the old FUSE implementation).
>
> RHEL 6.2 x86_64 is listed as one of the supported OSes, so it probably
> works fine with CentOS too.
>
> There is some positive and negative feedback in the following links:
>
> https://groups.google.com/a/zfsonlinux.org/group/zfs-discuss/browse_thread/thread/5a739039623f8fb1
>
> http://pingd.org/2012/installing-zfs-raid-z-on-centos-6-2-with-ssd-caching.html
>
> Please share your results if you do any testing :)

The website looks promising. They are using a thing called SPL, 
Sun/Solaris Porting Layer to be able to use the Solaris ZFS code.
But there is no more OpenSolaris, isn't it? Means they have to stay with 
the ZFS code from when it was open?