Tag : deduplication

VDO Killed My Server

Posted September 3, 2018 by david & filed under CentOS Comments: 1

Tags: deduplication, internal clients, logical volume, VDO, virtual device

FolksI was impressed with the description of VDO (Virtual Device Optimizer?) in the RedHat documentaion, so much that I tried to use it.The tutorials led me to a few commands.I built a VDO device on top of two USB disks which I made into a Logical Volu..

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Vdo Statustics On Dedup?

Posted August 31, 2018 by david & filed under CentOS Comments: 0

Tags: deduplication, wise decision

FolksIve started to use vdo instead of zfs in CentOS 7.I hope this is a wise decision.However, Im a bit mystified in decoding the vdostats output.Id like to figure out how well deduplication is working.One measure would be to find two numbers:L = ..

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