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Comment on ZFS Deduplication with NTFS by Ed Plese

Ed Plese — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 02:03:12 +0000

Because NTFS doesn’t know anything about the ZFS deduplication, it won’t factor deduplication into its space reporting. For example, a 10 GB NTFS volume stored on a zvol with 2 identical 2 GB files would report 4 GB used and 6 GB free from Windows.

Comment on ZFS Deduplication with NTFS by jeremiah

jeremiah — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 19:15:35 +0000

this is awesome; ntfs won’t support sector-based deduplication in my lifetime, but NTFS on ZFS is something I can do today.

Comment on ZFS Deduplication with NTFS by Jackie

Jackie — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 07:57:35 +0000

I am wondering what NTFS would report the disk usage. Is it the case that there will still have only 4G available to NTFS but the real space consumption is saved by ZFS?

Comment on Windows Backups to ZFS by The Blog of Ed Plese » Samba shadow_copy2 Enhancements

The Blog of Ed Plese » Samba shadow_copy2 Enhancements — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 04:58:14 +0000

[...] creating a directory in the .zfs/snapshot subdirectory. To see how this can be used, see my Windows Backups to ZFS post. Though referring to the SMB/CIFS server built into OpenSolaris, the concept works equally [...]