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Enabling dedup on ZFS is a good way to ruin your day if you're too happy.
by doublepg23 3y ago
Enabling dedup on ZFS is a good way to ruin your day if you're too happy.
- quectophoton 3y agoYup that's what I read everywhere. Always comments like, "if you think you need dedup, no you don't". Even recently when I maybe had a use case for it, I just decided to eat the storage space. I was rsyncing from multiple old HDDs to my NAS to have them more easily accessible, and some files are just the same: a few anime series I have rewatched (from the same torrent). So my guess is that I could save a few hundreds of GBs with dedup, but with all the negative comments I'm leaving it as my last option. If I run out of space I can either buy more, or spend some time reorganizing stuff manually.