Several months ago, ZFS added deduplication support. This is a brilliant feature which allows duplicate (N) copies of data to be represented only once on disk, rather than keeping multiple (N) copies. Unfortunately, deduplication has many potential security concerns, some obvious and some not-so-obvious. For instance, hashing collisions are an obvious problem and are fairly [...]
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