[OpenIndiana-discuss] Dedup - warning use or futher work?

Bill Sommerfeld sommerfeld at alum.mit.edu
Wed Dec 21 20:53:55 UTC 2011


On 12/21/11 12:36, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk wrote:
> As we may know by now, the current dedup code isn't very useful. Are there
> work being done on this code at the moment? If not, I think it might be a
> good idea to either remove it or at least add a rather flashy warning so
> that people won't use it for new systems unless they really want to (as in
> want to do testing or know what they're doing).

removing the code would be destructive and a bad idea (would screw anyone who
had turned it on in the past and had a non-empty ddt in their pool).

making it harder to enable would be a good idea.



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