[Gluster-users] GlusterFS over lessfs/opendedupe

[Gerald Brandt]

Hi,

I'm currently running GlusterFS over XFS, and it works quite well.

I'm wondering if it's possible to add data deduplication into the mix by:

glusterfs --> lessfs --> xfs or
glusterfs --> opendedupe --> xfs

Has anybody tried doing this? We're running VM images on gluster, and I figure we could get a bit of space saving bu deduplicating the data.

Gerald

[Christian Wittwer]

Can you describe your setup how you are running VM images on gluster?
We're currently looking at that option but we don't find much
information on the internet about it.

Thanks!
Christian

Post by Gerald Brandt
Hi,
I'm currently running GlusterFS over XFS, and it works quite well.
glusterfs --> lessfs --> xfs   or
glusterfs --> opendedupe --> xfs
Has anybody tried doing this?  We're running VM images on gluster, and I figure we could get a bit of space saving bu deduplicating the data.
Gerald
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[Gerald Brandt]

Hi,

I asked this a while back, but haven't received any answers. Has anyone tried some form of dedup?

Gerald


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Subject: GlusterFS over lessfs/opendedupe

Hi,

I'm currently running GlusterFS over XFS, and it works quite well.

I'm wondering if it's possible to add data deduplication into the mix by:

glusterfs --> lessfs --> xfs or
glusterfs --> opendedupe --> xfs

Has anybody tried doing this? We're running VM images on gluster, and I figure we could get a bit of space saving bu deduplicating the data.

Gerald

[Amar Tumballi]

Post by Gerald Brandt
I'm currently running GlusterFS over XFS, and it works quite well.
glusterfs --> lessfs --> xfs or
glusterfs --> opendedupe --> xfs
Has anybody tried doing this? We're running VM images on gluster, and I figure we could get a bit of space saving bu deduplicating the data.

Hi Gerald,

Currently within Gluster team, we are not focusing on testing
deduplication on top of Gluster, however, it is in our *not so far*
roadmap.

I am not very sure if somebody else in the community have worked on this
type of setup earlier though.

Regards,
Amar