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Best-Effort Extent-Same, a btrfs dedupe agent

8 mentions on Hacker News by 7 people: 1 story, 7 comments · first 2020-09-29 · latest 2026-01-02

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  1. …this use case (both in speed and disk usage). Also, the out-of-band deduplication for btrfs using https://github.com/Zygo/bees is very impressive and flexible, in a way that ZFS just doesn't match.
    comment by williamstein · 2025-08-31 · in Bcachefs Goes to "Externally Maintained"
  2. I've used bees successfully. https://github.com/Zygo/bees
    comment by kccqzy · 2025-02-26 · in Hyperspace
  3. Instead of dupremove, bees may be more appropriate for your goals. https://github.com/Zygo/bees Bees does things at a lower level than just reflinking full files like dupremove (it dedups at the level of extents). Be sure to read the links…
    comment by sillystuff · 2024-12-17 · in Tell HN: Deduplicating a 10.4 TiB game preservation archive (WIP)
  4. Which tool did you end up using for btrfs? I tried out bees https://github.com/Zygo/bees but it is way too slow.
    comment by kccqzy · 2024-10-31 · in OpenZFS deduplication is good now and you shouldn't use it
  5. …with compression - this allows for deduplication. 5) Run a deduplication tool that supports btrfs ( https://github.com/Zygo/bees ). Creating btrfs with sha256 checksums is probably better for block deduplication while using crypto…
    comment by M95D · 2024-03-20 · in Ask HN: How should organize and back up 23 TiB of personal files?
  6. I use btrfs + bees ( https://github.com/Zygo/bees ) for such cases
    comment by Szpadel · 2023-04-22 · in Should you remove duplicate files?
  7. …on much of the hardware he gets, and his experience does not sound good for consumer drives. [0]: https://github.com/Zygo/bees/
    comment by throwaway8941 · 2020-09-29 · in Durability: NVMe Disks