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Content Owner: Herman Rutten | ||||
Summary
Perf. Tier: Inline (dedup post-ack / compr pre-ack)
Cap. Tier: Post-process
Cap. Tier: Post-process
Details
Deduplication can be performed in 4 ways:
1. Immediately when the write is processed (inline) and before the write is ackowledged back to the originator of the write (pre-ack).
2. Immediately when the write is processed (inline) and in parallel to the write being acknowledged back to the originator of the write (on-ack).
3. A short time after the write is processed (inline) so after the write is acknowleged back to the originator of the write - eg. when flushing the write buffer to persistent storage (post-ack)
4. After the write has been committed to the persistent storage layer (post-process).
The first and second methods, when properly integrated into the solution, are most likely to offer both performance and capacity benefits. The third and fourth methods are primarily used for capacity benefits only.
From AOS 5.0 and onwards compression is performed inline (pre-ack) for random writes, so before they are written to SSD. From AOS 5.1 onwards post-process compression is enabled by default. From AOS 5.18 onwards inline compression is enabled by default for new storage containers.
1. Immediately when the write is processed (inline) and before the write is ackowledged back to the originator of the write (pre-ack).
2. Immediately when the write is processed (inline) and in parallel to the write being acknowledged back to the originator of the write (on-ack).
3. A short time after the write is processed (inline) so after the write is acknowleged back to the originator of the write - eg. when flushing the write buffer to persistent storage (post-ack)
4. After the write has been committed to the persistent storage layer (post-process).
The first and second methods, when properly integrated into the solution, are most likely to offer both performance and capacity benefits. The third and fourth methods are primarily used for capacity benefits only.
From AOS 5.0 and onwards compression is performed inline (pre-ack) for random writes, so before they are written to SSD. From AOS 5.1 onwards post-process compression is enabled by default. From AOS 5.18 onwards inline compression is enabled by default for new storage containers.
