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ZFS Compression, when du and ls appear to disagree.

I have recently been migrated to a new ZFS based home directory at work, I’ve got hourly snapshots of my data and (as I’ve just found it) automatic on disk compression is enabled. Recently, when dealing with a corrupt .tar archive the on disk compression managed to suitably confuse me - enough to write this [...]