There seems to be a lot of chatter about Microsoft adding missing features to ReFS in Windows Server 2019. Is disk compression now available? And if so, does it work in conjunction with data deduplication?
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There seems to be a lot of chatter about Microsoft adding missing features to ReFS in Windows Server 2019. Is disk compression now available? And if so, does it work in conjunction with data deduplication?
ReFS does not support compression, but if you use deduplication on a ReFS volume, compression is used - at least according to this page https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/storage/data-deduplication/whats-new
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Unfortunately it appears that Microsoft has not yet added compression to ReFS in Windows Server 2019 (version 1709) as per this document: