Storage Efficiency • WAFL Internals
Storage Efficiency • WAFL Internals Dedupe, Compress, Compact: How WAFL Squeezes Every Byte Out of Capacity Flash Flash is no longer the exotic performance tier — it’s becoming the default. Which makes the question of how efficiently you use every terabyte of it more important than ever. 🕑 8 min read A personal note: I’m a presales manager at NetApp, but this blog is my own space for sharing what I find genuinely interesting in storage engineering. The views below are mine alone, not an official NetApp position, and not a sales pitch — just one practitioner nerding out on a filesystem. WAFL Deduplication Compression Compaction TSSE AFF/ASA C-Series QLC Flash Every gigabyte of flash you buy today costs more than the equivalent gigabyte of spinning disk, and that gap doesn’t look like it’s clos...