Blockchain based technologies require large datasets to work. It makes sense to put them on a separate volume/dataset in case the filesystem supports them. I'm using ZFS and was wondering whether there're any properties recommended to set on the dataset which only contains blockchain data. Is it well compressable (if yes, with with algorithm)? Is it deduplicable? What's the drawback during reading (e.g. is old data accessed often and therefore needs to be decompressed constantly)?
I'm assuming that they all have similar data structures, but if not let's focus on what bitcoin stores in ~/.bitcoin
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I'm using ZFS 7.x on Ubuntu 17.10.