Zygo/bees
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Best-Effort Extent-Same, a btrfs dedupe agent observed · 2026-10-05
Health v2 · maintenance only
65/100
- Activity 72
- Release rhythm 35
- Longevity 100
Flags: no_releases
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-10-21. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: n/a
- age_days: 3624
- days_rel: n/a
- days_push: 170
- n_releases_24m: 0
Adoption not part of the score
1033 stars · 75 forks observed · 2026-10-05
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded
bees is a userspace block-oriented deduplication agent for btrfs filesystems, written in C++. It runs as a daemon that incrementally scans and dedupes new data on live filesystems using a space-efficient persistent hash table.
Use cases
- deduplicate a large btrfs filesystem to recover free space
- continuously dedupe new data as it is written without downtime
- dedupe data across btrfs snapshots and reflinks
- combine dedupe with btrfs compression
- run dedupe with minimal RAM using a constant-size hash table
- throttle dedupe load automatically during maintenance windows
When to choose
- you run btrfs and want maximum free-space recovery from dedupe, including snapshots
- you need continuous background dedupe of live data rather than scheduled one-off runs
- you have large datasets and want a memory-efficient, persistent hash table
- you want dedupe that coexists with btrfs compression
When to avoid
- your filesystem is not btrfs (bees is btrfs-only)
- you need include/exclude filters or per-file dedupe lists
- you cannot grant root privileges (CAP_SYS_ADMIN)
- you run an old kernel with known btrfs data-corruption bugs
- your dataset shrinks often and you need RAM usage to scale down
Facets
application · maturity active
file-system compression developer-tools files self-hosted operating-systems cli self-hosted btrfs deduplication daemon storage-optimization extent-same linux
1 source
- readme: https://github.com/Zygo/bees · fetched 2026-10-05 · 234bca39c0c1
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| Zygo/bees | main | 65 |
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