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ZFS on LUKS in Ubuntu 16 (nixaid.com)
1 points by arno1 3418 days ago
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> I have used lz4 compression as it has high performance and data deduplication dedup=on to save space.

Nice writeup but IMHO it's wrong to assume enabling dedup will make sense under any circumstance, especially regarding the performance drawbacks on systems that can't handle it. It might deserve a little more consideration than just setting it on by default in a somewhat copy-pasteable command. Oracle published a nifty guide on how to proceed with dedup:

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/articles/servers-storage-a...

Thank you, @janwh! I have added a warning to my write-up and have also updated/shuffled some sections around to get it a better shape :-)