On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 09:30:29PM +0300, Andrey Kuzmin wrote:
> ZFS deduplication is block-level, so to deduplicate one needs data
> broken into blocks to be written. With compression enabled, you don't
> have these until data is compressed. Looks like cycles waste indeed,
> but ...

ZFS compression is also block-level.  Both are done on ZFS blocks.  ZFS
compression is not streamwise.

-- 
Darren
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