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		rincebrain on Sept 14, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: My 71 TiB ZFS NAS After 10 Years and Zero Drive Fa... It was a handwavey rule of estimation for dedup, handwavey because dedup scales on number of records, which is going to vary wildly by recordsize.

InvaderFizz on Sept 14, 2024 [–]

Additionally unless it's changed in the last six years, you should pretend ZFS dedupe doesn't exist.

rincebrain on Sept 14, 2024 | [–]

Not in a stable release yet, but check out https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/discussions/15896 if you have a need for that.

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