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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. |