From dc995059aa63b06013dd482854a0019fa21e48c3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Alex Auvolat Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2024 13:43:30 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] [doc-dedup] mention deduplication and compression in features page --- doc/book/reference-manual/features.md | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/book/reference-manual/features.md b/doc/book/reference-manual/features.md index e8ba9510..433efd44 100644 --- a/doc/book/reference-manual/features.md +++ b/doc/book/reference-manual/features.md @@ -55,6 +55,14 @@ and with various levels of consistency, in order to adapt to a variety of usage Read our reference page on [supported replication modes](@/documentation/reference-manual/configuration.md#replication_mode) to select the replication mode best suited to your use case (hint: in most cases, `replication_mode = "3"` is what you want). +### Compression and deduplication + +All data stored in Garage is deduplicated, and optionnally compressed using +Zstd. Objects uploaded to Garage are chunked in blocks of constant sizes (see +[`block_size`](@/documentation/reference-manual/configuration.md#block_size)), +and the hashes of individual blocks are used to dispatch them to storage nodes +and to deduplicate them. + ### Web server for static websites A storage bucket can easily be configured to be served directly by Garage as a static web site.