Real World DragonFlyBSD Hammer DeDup figures from HiFX - Reclaiming more than 1/4th ( 30% ) Disk Space from an Almost Full Drive

[Thomas Keusch]

On 2011-07-19, Siju George <sgeorge.ml at gmail.com> wrote:

Hi Siju,

> Short Sumary before dedup of firtst Hard Disk
>
> Filesystem                Size   Used  Avail Capacity  Mounted on
> Backup1                   454G   451G   2.8G    99%    /Backup1
>
> Short Sumary after dedup of firtst Hard Disk
>
> Filesystem                Size   Used  Avail Capacity  Mounted on
> /Backup1/pfs/@@-1:00001   454G   313G   141G    69%    /Backup1/Data
[...]

nice statistics. I can not provide stats of my own, as I don't run
Dragonfly yet, so I'm more of a hypothetical user right now. But one
thing that's of interest to me is how long did the de-dupe process take?

Regards
Thomas