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Standard crash backtrace collection, plus $BEESSTATUS for the high-level overview of what bees is doing. Signed-off-by: Zygo Blaxell <bees@furryterror.org>
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75 lines
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BEES
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Best-Effort Extent-Same, a btrfs deduplication agent.
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About bees
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bees is a block-oriented userspace deduplication agent designed for large
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btrfs filesystems. It is an offline dedupe combined with an incremental
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data scan capability to minimize time data spends on disk from write
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to dedupe.
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Strengths
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* Space-efficient hash table and matching algorithms - can use as little as 1 GB hash table per 10 TB unique data (0.1GB/TB)
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* Incremental realtime dedupe of new data using btrfs tree search
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* Works with btrfs compression - dedupe any combination of compressed and uncompressed files
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* Works around btrfs filesystem structure to free more disk space
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* Persistent hash table for rapid restart after shutdown
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* Whole-filesystem dedupe - including snapshots
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* Constant hash table size - no increased RAM usage if data set becomes larger
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* Works on live data - no scheduled downtime required
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* Automatic self-throttling based on system load
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Weaknesses
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* Whole-filesystem dedupe - has no include/exclude filters, does not accept file lists
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* Runs continuously as a daemon - no quick start/stop
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* Requires root privilege (or `CAP_SYS_ADMIN`)
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* First run may require temporary disk space for extent reorganization
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* [First run may increase metadata space usage if many snapshots exist](gotchas.md)
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* Constant hash table size - no decreased RAM usage if data set becomes smaller
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* btrfs only
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Installation and Usage
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* [Installation](install.md)
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* [Configuration](config.md)
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* [Running](running.md)
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* [Command Line Options](options.md)
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Recommended Reading
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* [bees Gotchas](gotchas.md)
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* [btrfs kernel bugs](btrfs-kernel.md)
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* [bees vs. other btrfs features](btrfs-other.md)
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* [What to do when something goes wrong](wrong.md)
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More Information
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* [How bees works](how-it-works.md)
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* [Missing bees features](missing.md)
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Bug Reports and Contributions
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Email bug reports and patches to Zygo Blaxell <bees@furryterror.org>.
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You can also use Github:
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https://github.com/Zygo/bees
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Copyright & License
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Copyright 2015-2018 Zygo Blaxell <bees@furryterror.org>.
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GPL (version 3 or later).
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