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...der two virtual machines sharing lots of the same blocks. Assuming there /is/ a misalignment between NTFS & VMDK/VMDK & ZFS, if they''re not in the same order within NTFS, they don''t align, and will actually produce different blocks in ZFS: VM1 NTFS 1---2---3--- AAAABBBBCCCC AAAABBBBCCCC ZFS 1---2---3---4--- ZFS blocks are " AA", "AABB" and so on ... Then in another virtual machine, the blocks are in a different order: VM2 NTFS 1---2---3--- CCCCAAAABBBB CCCCAAAABBBB ZFS 1---2---3---4--- ZFS blocks for this...