On 01/03/13 02:19, Gary R, Schmidt wrote:
>> Does anyone know whether bacula can be made to work on a block-level
>> dedupe storage system? Are there any plans to support this 
>> technology?
> 
> What exactly do you mean by "work"?
> 
> If you mean "use as a target for disk-based storage volumes," it's just 
> another fscking file system, it will work.
> 
> If you mean "can Bacula read files from it," then, again, it's just 
> another fscking file system, of course it will work.
> 
> ZFS is being used for both.
> 
> What magic are you expecting?

Keep in mind that ZFS block-level deduplication is very expensive in
terms of RAM.

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