That's a great comment and I fully admit that my knowledge of NetApp internals becomes more foggy as time goes on, so I can't confidently answer. Anyone else? On Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 10:24 PM, Chris Friesen <chris.friesen at windriver.com>wrote: > On 04/02/2014 09:28 PM, Joe Topjian wrote: > > Diego has a great point about not using qemu backing files: if your >> backend storage implements deduplication and/or compression, you should >> see the same savings as what _base is trying to achieve. >> > > Doesn't that still leave you vulnerable to a single point of failure if > your single deduped copy gets corrupted? > > Or can the backend be configured to store multiple copies of each deduped > chunk for reliability? > > Chris > > > _______________________________________________ > OpenStack-operators mailing list > OpenStack-operators at lists.openstack.org > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-operators > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-operators/attachments/20140403/26ab4631/attachment.html>