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Can you explain this in more detail? It doesn't seem true on a first glance.

If you enable compression on ZFS that runs on top of dmcrypt volume, it will naturally happen before encryption (since dmcrypt is the lower layer). It's also unclear how it could be much faster, since dmcrypt generally is bottlenecked on AES-NI computation (https://blog.cloudflare.com/speeding-up-linux-disk-encryptio...), which ZFS has to do too.



Oh my bad. I misread your comment. You are doing ZFS on top of dmcrypt, not dmcrypt images/volumes on top of ZFS.


It was my comment and yes indeed that's what I'm doing. Zfs on top of luks




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