Oracle to deny deduplication?

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Tue, 21 Sep 2010, Zaphod Beeblebrox wrote:
>
> Shortly thereafter I found a nice table (here:
> http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/819-5461/appendixa-1?a=view )
>
> ... now notice that the official Oracle table lists version 21 of
> zpool as "Reserved" ... this worries me.  Is the solution to the
> lawsuit against Sun by NetApp (that Oracle settled) that Oracle burys
> deduplication?  This could be bad for people who unbury it.

I think that this is just because Solaris 10 Update 9 is recently 
released and deduplication is not considered robust enough for 
production use yet.  You are looking at a Solaris 10 document.  The 
easy solution was to simply mask it out.  The deduplication code is 
likely still active in Solaris 10 Update 9 zfs, even if it can't be 
enabled by it.

No worries ...

Bob
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