> 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