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by abrookewood 485 days ago
ZFS: "The main benefit of deduplication is that, where appropriate, it can greatly reduce the size of a pool and the disk count and cost. For example, if a server stores files with identical blocks, it could store thousands or even millions of copies for almost no extra disk space." (emphasis added)

https://www.truenas.com/docs/references/zfsdeduplication/