On Thursday, 15 January 2026, at 8:42 PM, Bakul Shah wrote:
> One idea is to try to grok zfs send’s serial format, which is a raw block 
> level stream and try to wed it to venti. And may add a zfsmount command to 
> serve readonly zfs snapshots directly from venti? 
> 
My suspicion is that this is not good for deduplication, because a log of data 
will be compressed by zfs's own internal compression, and it will probably not 
be block aligned at proper places, so worse than cpio. Venti-streamchunk might 
help, but I am surely not going to evaluate this.

AFAIK the zfs stream format is not good for anything else as transporting 
between zfs systems. 
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