Re: Massive BTRFS performance degradation

boris
2014-03-09T17:14:48Z

Swâmi Petaramesh <swami <at> petaramesh.org> writes:

> Actually deduplication WAS the reason why I recently made the move to BTRFS
> again, for deduplication in ZFS is working, but *SO* memory hungry and
> performance killer unless you have *lots* of RAM...
>

If you think about what dedup is has to do it's going to be fairly memory
hungry; hopefully there are a few maths (yes, it's maths not math! Think of
the game dominoe :-D ) bods on the team.

<starts to get excited about how one would tackle it then decides he needs
to get out more>