> From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss-
> boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Saso Kiselkov
> 
> If you plan on using it as a storage server for multimedia data
> (movies), don't even bother considering compression, as most media
> files
> already come heavily compressed. Dedup might still come in handy,
> though.

If you're storing movies, I agree compression is a waste.  But I think dedup
will also be a waste, unless you have multiple copies of the same movie on
your disk for some reason.

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