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ZFS Gets Built-In Deduplication

elREG writes to mention that Sun's ZFS now has built-in deduplication utilizing a master hash function to map duplicate blocks of data to a single block instead of storing multiples. "File-level deduplication has the lowest processing overhead but is the... ...full story at slashdot

from slashdot on Tue, Nov 03 2009

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