On 17 mrt 2010, at 10:56, zfs ml wrote:

> On 3/17/10 1:21 AM, Paul van der Zwan wrote:
>> 
>> On 16 mrt 2010, at 19:48, valrh...@gmail.com wrote:
>> 
>>> Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but it could just be a coincidence. That 
>>> is, perhaps the data that you copied happens to lead to a dedup ratio 
>>> relative to the data that's already on there. You could test this out by 
>>> copying a few gigabytes of data you know is unique (like maybe a DVD video 
>>> file or something), and that should change the dedup ratio.
>> 
>> The first copy of that data was unique and even dedup is switched off for 
>> the entire pool so it seems a bug in the calculation of the
>> dedupratio or it used a method that is giving unexpected results.
>> 
>>      Paul
> 
> beadm list -a
> and/or other snapshots that were taken before turning off dedup?

Possibly but that should not matter. If I triple the amount of data in the 
pool, with dedup switch off, the dedupratio
should IMHO change because the amount of non-deduped data has changed.

        Paul
 
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