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FreeBSD ZFS Deduplication

Time to prove or disprove the ZFS dedup capabilities. First its important to understand that as with compression, if we change the settings on the storage block then only new data written to that area will be de-duped or compressed. … Continue reading

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FreeBSD ZFS – Connecting an existing zpool to a new OS

Imagine that you have your server with an external RAID array running a ZFS file system, or even a separate internal array on the box and the OS array is trashed. Now you have your nice redundant ZFS partition, but … Continue reading

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