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by langdon 2775 days ago
Really not an expert here but Red Hat did acquire and open source VDO from Permabit which has similar functionality AIUI.
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Conan_Kudo 2771 days ago
I use subvolumes, snapshots, and send/recv functionality for cheap replication of data. Sometimes even on RAIDed disks!

There are only two file systems with that feature set today: Btrfs and ZFS. I personally prefer Btrfs because it's way more flexible and shipped with the Linux kernel.

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ofrzeta 2775 days ago
As far as I know VDO only provides compression and deduplication. So no snapshots like in Btrfs and ZFS, although you can use LVM snapshots. Also no RAID features.
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