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PowerScale OneFS 9.3.0.0 CLI Administration Guide

Considerations for using inline deduplication

This section describes considerations for using (or not using) inline deduplication.

Enabling inline deduplication can be advantageous if your users or workload have characteristics such as the following.

  • If your users frequently copy files, either large files or whole data sets. In this case, inline deduplication can effectively turn these operations into clone operations.
  • If your workloads involve lots of small files (such as EDA), those small files are deduplicated more efficiently with inline deduplication. By default, SmartDedupe skips small files.
  • If your data sets contain a large amount of zeroed data, storage savings are available from that alone.

You may not need inline deduplication if:

  • Your data sets have little or no deduplication.
  • You prefer to run SmartDedupe during off hours. Inline deduplication is always on.
  • Your workload is performance sensitive. Inline deduplication may add too much overhead.

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