[Gluster-users] GlusterFS over lessfs/opendedupe

[Amar Tumballi]

> I'm currently running GlusterFS over XFS, and it works quite well.
>
> I'm wondering if it's possible to add data deduplication into the mix by:
>
> glusterfs -->  lessfs -->  xfs   or
> glusterfs -->  opendedupe -->  xfs
>
> Has anybody tried doing this?  We're running VM images on gluster, and I figure we could get a bit of space saving bu deduplicating the data.
>

Hi Gerald,

Currently within Gluster team, we are not focusing on testing 
deduplication on top of Gluster, however, it is in our *not so far* 
roadmap.

I am not very sure if somebody else in the community have worked on this 
type of setup earlier though.

Regards,
Amar