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CONTAP-432218: Deduplication achieves exta savings when run manually using scan-old-data=true

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While configured efficiency configuration is able to achieve good deduplication savings from inline-writes and regular background jobs, a manual triggered full scan (volume efficiency start -scan-old-data true) is able to gains additional deduplication savings on top.

 

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