Re: btrfs dedup - available or experimental? Or yet to be?

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On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 11:10:46PM +0000, Martin wrote:
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> Does btrfs have dedup (on raid1 multiple disks) that can be enabled?

   The current state of play is on the wiki:

https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Deduplication

> Can anyone relate any experiences?

   duperemove is reported as working.

> Is there (or will there be,) a bad penalty of fragmentation?

   With duperemove, it operates on an extent scale, not at the level
of blocks, so the fragmentation isn't so bad.

   Hugo.

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