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...y 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 VM would be " CC", "CCAA", "AABB" etc. So, no overlap between virtual machines, and no benefit from dedup. I may have it wrong, and there are indeed 30,785,627 unique blocks in my setup, but if ther...