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by ggm 2031 days ago
Most ZFS howto's now recommend against dedup on the prolongued memory cost consequences. Yes, you would get some block level compression outcome. But, you enter the cost/benefit hell of balancing CPU and memory at runtime.
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Can't you periodically run the dedup out of band (for example whenever you scrub)? https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Deduplication
I was just googling this myself and I think this is a feature that btrfs has over zfs. There’s no way to do native offline deduplication as far as I could find.